Order STOLONIFERA. 
Family Clavulariidae. 
Genus Anthelia. 
i. Anthelia garcice (Hickson). 
For description see: Hickson, Revision of Stolonifera. Trans. Zool. Soc. XIII, 1894, p. 341, 1 fig. 
Stat. 33. Bay of Pidjot, Lombok. 22 M. and less. Mud, coral and coral sand. 1 Ex. 
Stat. 37. Sailus Ketjil, Paternoster Islands. 27 M. and less. Coral and coral sand. 1 Ex. 
Stat. 81. Sebangkatan. 34 M. Coral bottom and Lithothamnion. 5 Ex. 
Stat. 144. Damar. 25 fathoms. 1 Ex. 
Stat. 248. Tiur. 1 Ex. 
Several colonies of a whitish colour, with polyps slightly greenish, agree with what 
Hickson described as Clavularia garcice better than with any other form. From a basal 
membrane the polyps arise somewhat crowdedly to a height of 1 cm., excluding the tentacles. 
These may reach 7 mm. and bear long pinnules, often up to 1.8 mm. in length. 
We refer these specimens to Anthelia garcice (Hickson) for the following reasons: 
(a) the abundance of minute rodlets, about 0.5 mm. in length, with rounded corners, and 
minute asperities ; 
( b ) the numerous long pinnules which give the tentacles a fluffy appearance ; 
(1 c ) the thin-walled flabby nature of the polyps and tentacles ; 
(d) the mouth is very small and situated on a papilla. 
We suggest that Hickson’s diagnosis should be enlarged to include forms where the pinnules 
may be about sixty on each side, tending to an arrangement in three rows and almost hiding' 
the adoral median line, while the aboral median line is a long bare tongue. It should be noted 
that a younger polyp may have only twenty pinnules on each side (Hickson counted thirty). In 
some other specimens both polyps and tentacles are densely dusted with rodlets, almost touching 
one another. 
Two small specimens from Station 177 are referred to Anthelia garcice (Hickson) mainly 
on the ground that the abundant spicules are rodlets with rounded ends, showing under high 
power numerous minute asperities. The tentacles show on each side two rows of somewhat over 
a dozen pinnules. From examination we are convinced that the appearance of two rows on one 
specimen may be replaced by one row with double the number on another. The spicules are 
not sparse as in the specimens from Station 64, but dust the surface. Their maximum length, 
0.05 mm., agrees with Hickson’s measurement. 
