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4- Lemnalia cervicornis (May). (Plate XIV, Fig. 9). 
For description see: 
May, Jenaische Zeitschr. Naturwiss. XXXIII (1899), p. 137, 1 fig. 
KUKENTHAL, Versuch einer Revision der Alcyonarien. II Nephthyiden, Zool. Jahrb. XIX, 
(1904), p. 138. 
Stat. 213. Saleyer. Up to 36 M. 2 Ex. 
Stat. 322. South coast of Bawean-Island. 32 M. Coral. 1 Ex. 
The best specimen, whitish in colour, rises stiffly to a height of 2.8 cm. A sterile stalk, 
8 mm. in maximum breadth, divides at the top into about a dozen somewhat antler-like branches, 
very much as in May’s figure. The anthocodiae are sessile. Most of the spicules are spindles, 
some with very low prominences, others more spinose, others with warts in zones. Two or 
three minute irregular sclerites were seen, which might be called 4-rayed, but appear to us 
more like young compact spindles with a pair of warts at each end. 
Previously recorded from Mozambique, Zanzibar, East Coast of Africa. 
5. Lemnalia terminalis (Ouoy and Gaimard). 
For description see: BOURNE, The genus Lemnalia, Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool. vol. VII, p. 530, 3 figs. 
Stat. 129. Anchorage off Karkaralong-group. 23—31 M. 1 Ex. 
Stat. 213. Saleyer. Up to 36 M. Coral reefs, mud and mud with sand. 2 Ex. 
Stat. 252. Taam-island. 9—-36 M. 3 Ex. 
The finest specimen, from Station 252, stands 23.5 cm. high, a beautiful glistening white 
colony. It bears a strong superficial resemblance to L. Icevis n. sp., but has notably different 
spiculation. It is markedly brittle. 
A yellowish white specimen with shortly pedicelled anthocodiae on very slender branchlets. 
The tentacles are brownish. The spicules are more substantial than those of L. nitida , but the 
two types are the same, namely spindles and rayed forms. Irregular sculptured scales are 
present on the tentacles. 
The broken stem of the specimen from Station 129 rises to a height of 6 cm., and a 
terminal branch is only 1.5 mm. in breadth. 
This species seems to us to be closely related to L. nitida , but its terminal branchlets 
are more slender and its large spindles are much broader. We may notice that the forms 
which are called by Kuicenthal double stars with two long arms, which occur in both species, 
are more readily derived from a bow type shortened and with the median prominences exag¬ 
gerated. Between the short quasi “double-stars” and the bows there are intermediate small brackets. 
Three fragments of the tips of a branch from Station 129, the largest 9 mm. long, 
probably belong to this species of Lemnalia. The polyps are markedly pedicellate. On the 
transparent walls of polyps and stem are clearly seen large numbers of irregularly disposed 
very fine spindles. 
Of two colonies from Station 213, Saleyer, the larger stands 6 cm. high and shows 4 main 
stems arising from a basal stock, each stem dividing soon into two closely parallel slender rounded 
branches, which again divide and then bear the elongated lappets. The colour is a deep cream 
and the whole colony is very brittle. 
Previously recorded from Port Molle, Queensland; King George’s Sound. 
