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exceedingly rare, while empty ovisacs and embryos showing larval structure are present 

 in considerable numbers. 



Fig. 6. A. Menipea patagonica Busk. 99. 7.1. 715 (Eaton Collection), Kerguelen. Young colony with 

 ancestrula, drawn from a dry specimen seen by' reflected light. B. M. flagellifera Busk. St. WS 84, 

 Falkland Islands. To show musculature of frontal avicularium. C. M. flagellifera Busk. St. 1563, 

 Marion Island. Ancestrula and first zooecium. 



b. bud, cm. condyles of mandible, r. rootlet, 5. seta, t.d. tendon of divaricator muscle, t.o. tendon of 

 occlusor muscle. 



Busk (1879, p. 194) recorded specimens of this species as Cellularia cirrata (see p. 332). 

 Hasenbank's description and figure of Menipea obtusa agree so exactly with M. pata- 

 gonica, of which I have examined the type material, that there can be no doubt that 

 they are synonymous. 



Busk's figure (1852ft, pi. xxiii, fig. 1), purporting to represent the ancestrula and 

 first few zooecia of this species, was drawn from a specimen of Tricellaria aculeata (see 



