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We cannot refer our specimen to Kukenthal’s species for the following reasons: 
( a ) the branching is antler-like, not sparse; 
(b) the internodes are solid, not hollow; 
(r) the cortex cannot be called thick. 
Yet the spiculation seems practically the same, consisting mainly, on the more superficial 
regions, of very rough straight and bent spindles, occasionally pseudo-clubs. 
The strongest piece has a basal breadth of 5 mm., and rises antler-like to a height of 
3 cm. The calyces stand out to a height of about 0.5 mm., and about six occur in one line on 
the distance of one centimetre. 
Order TELESTACEA. 
Genus Telesto. 
1. Telesto arborea Wright and Studer. (Plate XI, Figs. 4 and 6). 
For description see: WRIGHT and STUDER, Challenger Report, 1889, XXXI, p. 262, 2 figs. 
LAACICMANN, Zur Kenntnis der Alcyonarien Gattung Telesto. Zool. Jahrbucher, 1908, Supplement 
XI, p. 88, 2 figs. 
Stat. 15. 7 0 2'.6 S., ii5°23 , .6E. ioo M. Fine coral sand. 1 Ex. 
Stat. 47 a . Bay of Bima. 250 M. 1 Ex. 
Stat. 99. 6°7'.5N., i 20° 26' E. i6 t — 23 M. Lithothamnion bottom. 1 Ex. 
Stat. 1 17. i°o'.5 N., 122 0 56'E. 80 M. Sand and Coral. 1 Ex. 
Stat. 162. Salawatti. 18 M. Coarse and fine sand with clay and shells. 2 Ex. 
Stat. 163. Selee Strait. 29 M. Sand and stone, mixed with mud. 1 Ex. 
Stat. 164. i°42 / .5S., 130°47 / .5 E. 32 M. Sand, small stones, and shells. Numerous, many broken Ex. 
Stat. 258. Tual, Kei-islands. 22 M. Lithothamnion; sand and coral. 2 Ex. 
Stat. 273. Jedan Island. 1 Ex. 
Stat. 274. 5°28 / .2S., i 34 0 53'.9 E. 57 M. Sand and shells; stones. 1 Ex. 
Stat. 282. 8°25'.2S., I27 °i 8 / .4E. 15—30 fathoms. Sand, coral, and Lithothamnion. 3 Ex. 
Stat. 288. 9°o / .5 S., I26°3i'.2 E. 869 M. Hard; not obtained. 1 Ex. 
Stat. 310. 8° 30'S., U9°7'.5E. 73 M. Sand with few pieces of dead coral. 1 Ex. 
Stat. 315. Sailus Besar, Paternoster-Islands. Up to 36 M. Coral and Lithothamnion. 2 Ex. 
Brandewijns Bay, Museum Amsterdam, Sluiter leg. 1 Ex. 
Stat. Unrecorded. 1 Ex. 
In this well-known species the longitudinal furrows are clearly defined, but narrow; the 
spicules are colourless and form a coherent skeleton ; the stems tend to be upright; the walls 
are thin; the lateral polyps arise in all directions. Branching may occur to the fourth order. 
A colony with three main axes, .rising to a height of 4.6 cm., differs from the type in its very 
slight branching, but this is probably due to its youth. 
The spicules include : 
(1) delicate spindles almost smooth, 0.5 — 0.6 X 0.02 mm. ; 
(2) delicate spindles with a few low distant prominences, 0.5 X 0.02 mm.; 
(3) broader spindles with long prominences often compound, 0.3 x 0.03 mm., and 0.5 X 0.05 mm.; 
(4) short brackets, that is to say, rods bearing at each end a process almost at right angles and 
to the same side, 0.15X0.03 mm.; 
(5) short, delicate, smooth rodlets, probably from the distal part of the polyps. 
