NOTES ON SOME AUSTRALIAN POLYZOA. 



By T. Whitelegge. 



( Notes Jrom the Australian Museum). 



In the British Museum Catalogue of Marine Polyzoa, Part II, 

 (1 854), the late Mr. Busk, F.R.S., described two species of Polyzoa 

 from the Philippine Islands, which he referred to the genus 

 Lunitlites, at the same time remarking that they were " curious 

 forms and would appear to constitute a peculiar group." In the 

 years 1879, '80, and '81 the Rev. J. E. Tenison- Woods, Mr. W. A. 

 Haswell, and the Rev. T. Hincks published papers describing 

 several species which are closely allied to those described by Mr. 

 Busk. The various species have been assigned to four or five 

 genera. I intend in this paper to show that the undermentioned 

 species form a very distinct group having little in common with 

 those with which they have usually been associated except habit 

 or form : — 



Lunulites Philipjnnensis, Busk. 

 ,, cancellata, Busk. 



Cupularia crassa, Tenison-Woods. 



C onescharellina depressa, Haswell. 



Lunulites angulopora, Tenison-Woods. 



C onescharellina conica, Haswell. 



Lunulites incisa, Hincks. 



Eschara umhonata, Haswell. 



Flahellopora elegans 1 d'Orb. 

 Mr. A. W. Waters in a paper on some fossil Polyzoa from New- 

 Zealand (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. Feb. 1887, p. 71), states that he 

 had received recent specimens of the last-named species from 

 N. S. Wales, " which is either Lunulites cancellata, Busk, or very 

 closely allied to it." 



