:E>EOCEEIDIlsrG-S 



LINNEAN SOCIETY 



3STE-\;^r SOTTTH ■^T^.-a^XjES. 



WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28th, 1894, Continued. 



ON A NEW SPECIES OF ENTEROPNEUSTA ( PTYC NO- 

 DE R A AUSTRALIEFSIS) FROM THE COAST 

 OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 



By Jas. p. Hill, Demonstrator of Biology, University of 



Sydney. 



(Plates I. -VIII.) 



In a preliminary note communicated to this Society in Septem- 

 ber of last year I recorded the discovery of a species of Enteroj^- 

 neust at two widel}' sejDarated localities on the coast of New South 

 Wales, viz., at the ocean beach nearly opposite that part of 

 Broken Bay known as Creel Ba}', and also at Jervis Bay. Since 

 the publication of the preliminary note I have found the same 

 species on the beach nearly opposite Newport, N.S.W., and it may 

 thus be looked for along the whole coast line of New South 

 Wales. An examination of the form has shown that it is a new 

 species belonging to the genus Ptychodera, and since it is the first 



