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bodies, but, longer forms also occur. As Hickson states, there are also a few free spindles 
from the anthocodia. The colour is pale yellowish red. 
A very pale rose-coloured fragment was obtained from Station 260 and another very 
pale rather yellow-pink fragment from Station 289. 
Previously recorded from Maldives, Rutland Is., Andamans, Ceylon. 
5. Telesto rupicola (F. Muller). 
For description see: H. LAACKMANN, Zool. Jahrb. 1908, p. 81, 4 figs. 
Malacca Strait Houk Perlak. Depth 62 m., Cable, laid June 1892; rg. Dec. 1908. G. K. S. 
Telegraph V. N. 1 Ex. 
A vigorous colony of upright stems, rising to a height of 10 cm. Only a few of them 
give off secondary branches. The longitudinal grooves are of the broad shallow type. There is 
but little indication of a coherent skeleton near the tip of the stem. The spicules are of two 
main types: [a] long narrow spindles with few projections, and ( b ) shorter, relatively more 
robust spindles with numerous prominent projections. 
Previously recorded from Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, New Britain, Zanzibar. 
Not determinable. 
A number of specimens are too fragmentary and often too much encrusted to admit of 
secure identification. 
(1) Thus some unbranched fragments from Station 315, Paternoster Islands, are not far removed 
from T. arborea , but the rod-like spicules with few warts tend to be distinctly longer and 
often show a bifurcate, hay-fork-like end. 
(2) Other unbranched fragments from Station 285 near Timor are marked by the delicate wall 
of the stem, and closely approach T. prolifer a in their spiculation. 
(3) A single piece, standing stiffly to a height of 3.2 cm., giving off secondary polyps on four 
sides, with deep longitudinal grooves, is marked by the length and delicacy of its free spindles 
(up to 0.65 mm. in length). Most of the interlocking spicules are also longish, relatively 
narrow spindles. It probably approaches T. africana Verrill. 
Genus Coelogorgia. 
1. Coelogorgia palmosa (Val.). 
For description see: WRIGHT and STUDER, Challenger Alcyonarians, 1899, p. 266, 8 figs. 
Stat. 258. Tual, Kei-islands. Numerous, broken Ex. 
Stat. 282. 8°25 / .2S., I27 °i 8 / .4E. 27 — 54 M. Sand, coral and Lithothamnion. 1 Ex. 
Large but much broken specimens of this well-described type, which differs from Telesto 
in having no horny substance in the stem, in having simpler, non-coalescent spicules, in the 
absence of 8 regular longitudinal ridges and grooves on the outside of the stem, and in having 
entirely non-retractile polyps. 
A common diameter of the base of a main stem is 8 mm., but the largest basal piece 
has a diameter of 11 mm., both figures exceeding any previously recorded. The height of the 
