274 ' ENDEAVOUR SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



The species appears to conform to the characters of the 

 genus Sertularia, as restricted by Levinsen. 



Locs. South coast of South Australia. 

 Twenty miles east of King Island, Bass Strait. 



SERTULARIA OPERCULATA, Linne. 

 Sea-Hair," Ellis, Corall., 1755, p. 8, pi. iii., fig. 6. 



Sertularia operculata, Linne, Syst. Nat., 1758, p. 808. Id. , 

 Ellis and Solander, Zooph., 1786, p. 39. Id., Esper, 

 Fortsetz. der Pflanz., 1794-1806, ii., pi. iv., figs. 1-2. 

 Id., Lamarck, Anim. sans Vert., ii., 1816, p. 118. Id., 

 Johnston, Brit. Zooph., 2nd ed., 1847, p. 77, pi. xiv., 

 fig. 2-2a. Id., Busk, Voy. " Rattlesnake," i., 1852, 

 p. 392. Id., Hincks, Brit. Hydr. Zooph., 1868, p. 263, 

 pi. liv., figs. a-c. Id., Thompson, Ann. Mag. Nat. 

 Hist., (5), iii., 1879, p. 106 (in part). Id., Bale, Cat. 

 Austr. Hydr. Zooph., 1884, p. 67, pi. vi., fig. i., pi. 

 xix., fig. 3. Id., Allman, Rep. Sci. Results " Chal- 

 lenger " Exped., Zool., xxiii., Hydroida, pt. II., 1888, 

 p 61, pi. xxx., fig. 1-la. Id., Marktanner-Turner- 

 etscher, Ann. K. K. Hofmus., Wien, v., 1890, p. 231. 

 Id., Pfeffer, Ergeb. deutscher Polarexp., Allg. Theil., 

 ii., 1892, p. 116. Id., Farquhar, Trans. N.Z. Inst., 

 xxviii., 1896, p. 462. Id., Jaderholm, Arkiv. for 

 Zool., i., 1903, p. 284. Id., Nutting, Amer. Hydr., 

 Sert., 1904, p. 54, pi. ii., figs. 3-5. Id., Hartlaub, 

 Zool. Jahrb., Suppl. vi., iii., 1905, p. 664, figs. Y 4 , Z 4 , 

 A 5 . Id., Bartlett, Geelong Nat., (2), iii., 1907, 

 p. 60, fig. . Id., Billard, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool., (9), 

 vi., 1907, p. 218 ; Id., Billard, C. R. Acad. Sci., cxlviii., 

 1909, p. 1065 ; Id., Billard, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool., (9), 

 ix., 1909, p. 323 ; Id., Billard, Ann., Sci. Nat., Zool., 

 (9), xi., 1910, p. 18. Id., Warren, Ann. Natal Govt. 

 Mus., i., 1908, p. 305. Id., Ritchie, Trans. Roy. Soc. 

 Edinb., xlvii., 1909, p. 82. Id., Briggs, Rec. Austr. 

 Mus., x., 10, 1914, p. 295. 



Sertularia usneoides, Pallas, Elench., 1766, p. 132. 



Nigellastrum usneoides, Oken, Lehrb. der Naturg., 3 Teil, 

 Zool., i., 1815, p. 93. 



Sertularia serra, Lamarck, Anim. sans Vert., ii., 1816, p. 118. 



Dynamena serra, Blainville, Man. d'Act., 1834, p. 484. 



Dynamena brevicella, Lamouroux, Encyc. Meth., Zooph., 

 1824, p. 288. Id., Quoy et Gaimard, 1824, p. 613. 



