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(b) large spindles up to 3 mm. in length, some showing a bifurcated end, densely covered with 
compound warts; others rather narrower with simple prominences; 
(c) smaller spindles with fewer and less compound warts; 0.3X0.06 mm.; 
id) some small crosses; 
The texture of the colony is very hard ; the colour is cream coloured with tinges of a 
pinkish-brown. 
Previously recorded from Amboina, Reunion Island, East-Africa. 
7. Sinularia whiteleggei Llittschwager (Plate VIII, Fig. 5). 
For description see: 
LUTTSCHWAGER, Revision der Alcyoniidae, 1915, p. 13. 
Erroneously as Lobophytum tuberculosum Quoy et Gaim., see also: WHITELEGGE, Alcyonaria 
of Funafuti, Part 1, Mem. Australian Mus. Ill, 1897, p. 217, 6 figs. 
Stat. 37. Sailus Ketjil, Paternoster-islands. 27 mm. and less. Coral and coral sand. 1 Ex. 
A deep cream-coloured, very hard colony, whose disc is covered with crowded low 
rounded lobes compressed into one another. The maximum dimensions are, 5.2 cm. in length, 
4.3 in breadth, and 2.1 in height. The broad sterile trunk is 1.1 cm. in height, with basal 
diameters of 4.3 cm. and 2.5 cm. The siphonozooids are exceedingly minute. 
The characteristic features of the spicules, well shown in Whitelegge’s figures are ( a ) the 
numerous very blunt-ended tuberculate derivatives of the spindle type; ( b ) the divaricate tuber- 
culate heads of the small clubs, which are often very unsymmetrical at their ends. Most of the 
large spicules are densely covered with compound warts. 
While our specimen agrees with Whitelegge’s description and figures, we are accepting 
Luttschwager’s conclusion that Whitelegge was mistaken in referring his specimen to the species 
of Lobophytum established by Quoy and Gaimard. In any case our specimen must be placed 
in the genus Sinularia (= Sclerophytum), not in the genus Lobophytum, because of the very 
numerous clubs and the relatively large size of the tuberculate spindles. 
The following measurements were taken: 
(1) blunt-ended forms, 0.85 X 0.28 mm.; 
(2) tapering spindles, 0.29 X 0.06 mm.; 0.68 X 0.18 mm.; 
(3) small clubs, average length 0.12 mm. 
Previously recorded from Funafuti. 
8. Sinularia gardineri (Pratt). (Plate VIII, Fig. 1; Plate XXII, Fig. 4; Plate XXIII, Fig. 8). 
For description see: Edith M. Pratt, The Alcyonaria of the Maldives, 1903, Part II, p. 527, 1 fig. 
Stat. 60. Haingsisi. Reef. 1 Ex. 
Stat. 152. Waigeu-island. 32 M. Lithothamnion-bottom or reef. 1 Ex. 
An interesting young colony, irregularly saucer-shaped, with a short stalk, and a margin 
with the beginning of digitate lobes, and with a single digitate process rising from near the 
centre of the saucer. The texture is hard and the consistency brittle. The colour is deep cream. 
The autozooids are inconspicuous but numerous. No siphonozooids could be seen. 
