Polyzoa of Queen Charlotte Islands. 3 



mite Narrows *. [Coast of Patagonia ; Straits of Magellan 

 {Dai'win) ; Victoria.] 



Family Eucratiidse. 



Gemellaeia, Savigny. 



Gemellaria loricata^ Linnseus. 

 Virago Sound f, 8-15 fms. 



Family Cellulariidse. 



Menipea, Lamouroux. 



Menipea ternata^ Ellis & Solander. 

 Virasro Sound. 



*o^ 



Menipea ternata, form with many cells in an internode. 



CeUularia ternata, forma gracilis, Sniitt. 

 Menipea gracilis, Busk. 



Off Cumshewa Harbour. [Spitzbergen (/S'/n/^) ; Franklin- 

 Pierce Bay {Feilden^ N. Polar Exp.) ; Barents Sea {Dutch 

 Arctic Exp.).'] 



Mempea co7npacta, n. sp., form triplex. 



Zooscia in triplets, the two lower cells elongate, enlarged 

 above and tapering off below, the upper one much shorter ; 

 area oval, occupying about half the length of the cell; mar- 

 gin raised and thin, four spines on the outer side and two on 

 the inner, with a horn-coloured base, some of them stout and 

 pod-like ; operculum slender, simple, acicular, placed on the 

 inner side very close to the bottom of the area. Lateral avicu- 

 laria variable in size, sometimes very large, borne on the two 

 lower cells ; anterior avicularia wanting. Ooecium terminal, 

 rounded, expanded above, smooth and punctured. Internodes 

 very short and compact, somewhat wedge-shaped ; connecting 

 tubes double. 



Log. On weed, Queen Charlotte Islands. 



I am not acquainted with any described species to which 

 the present form can be referred ; it belongs to the section of 

 the genus which is so characteristic of the Australian seas. A 

 Menipea (apparently undescribed) occurs abundantly in Cali- 

 fornia, and has also been found off Vancouver Island, to which 



* These stations are all on the eastern coast, Houston Stewart Channel 



being only a short distance from the extreme southern point of the islands. 



t This is the most northerly station at which dredgings were obtained. 



