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5. Marginal avicularia absent, frontal avicularia present below bifurcation, outer distal corner 



angular or spike-shaped M. ornata 1 



Marginal avicularia present, frontal avicularia absent, outer distal corner rounded 



... 6. M. quadrata 



6. Frontal avicularia columnar, branches curled at tip ... 1. M. crispa 



Frontal avicularia sessile, branches not curled 7 



7. Frontal avicularia with setiform mandibles ... ... ... ... 3. M. flagellifera 



Mandibles of frontal avicularia not setiform 8 



8. Ovicells vestigial, cryptocyst granular ... ... ... ... ... ... 4. M.kempi 



Ovicells absent, cryptocyst smooth 2. M. patagonica 



9. Colony bilaminar... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 10 



Colony unilaminar ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 11 



10. Frontal avicularia paired, small, with short mandible, branches straight, wider distally 



M. roborata 2 

 Frontal avicularia single, rather large, with long, pointed mandible, branches somewhat 



curved laterally, not markedly wider distally ... ... ... ... 7. M. zelandica 



11. Basal heterozooecia present at bifurcation and sometimes elsewhere ... 8. M. vectifera 

 Basal heterozooecia absent ... ... ... M. ligulata, M. multiseriata, and M. spicata 2 



1. Menipea crispa (Pallas). 



Cellularia crispa Pallas, 1766, p. 71. 



Cellaria cirrata Ellis and Solander, 1786, p. 29, pi. iv, fig. dD. 



Menipea crispa Harmer 1923, p. 340, pi. xvii, fig. 17 (synonymy); Hasenbank, 1932, p. 364. 



Menipea cirrata O'Donoghue, 1924, p. 32; Busk, 1884, p. 22; O'Donoghue and de Watteville, 

 1937, p. 12. 



Station distribution. South Africa: Saldanha Bay. 



Geographical distribution. South Africa (Auctt. ; Discovery) ; Madagascar (Marcus). 



Busk (1879, p. 194) recorded Cellularia cirrata from Kerguelen, but his specimens 

 so labelled (99.7. 1.664 an d 665) belong to Menipea patagonica. The record for New 

 Zealand by Gray (1843, p. 292), based on Sinclair's collection, is also erroneous. Three 

 of Sinclair's specimens in the British Museum are labelled M. cirrhata [sic] in Gray's 

 writing. They belong to Catenicella umbonata (42.12.9.23), C. hastata (42.12.9.24), 

 and Tricellaria monotrypa (42.12.9.25). In the same registration there is also a 

 specimen from Algoa Bay labelled Menipea cirrhata, and this proves to be M. triseriata. 

 Gray was evidently uncertain of the identity of M. cirrata, and this uncertainty per- 

 sisted for some years, for Busk (1851, p. 119) mentions a Catenicella "which is most 

 probably the Menipea cirrata of Lamouroux, or the Cellaria cirrata of Ellis and 

 Solander". It was presumably on Gray's authority that Hutton (1873, p. 90), who had 

 not seen specimens (see his explanation of asterisk, p. 1), gave Menipea cirrata in his list 

 of New Zealand species. 



1 Cellularia infantae O'Donoghue (1924, p. 30), of which part of the type material is in the British Museum 

 (23 .7.26. 1), is a synonym of Menipea ornata (Busk). 



2 For the species of Menipea not discussed in this report see Harmer (1923). 



