NOTES ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF CERATELLA 



FUSCA, Gray. 



By J. Brazier, C.M.Z.S. 



A specimen of this Hydroid Zoophyte has been in the Australian 

 Museum for a number of years placed with the Gorgonoid Corals. 

 Only a few weeks ago when clearing out some of the cellar rooms 

 in the Museum, Mr. Whitelegge found in some glass jars in spirits 

 some very fine specimens, supposed to have been obtained in the 

 trawl by employees of the Fisheries Commission of New South 

 Wales. It does not appear, however, that any records of the 

 trawling, dates, or depths have been recorded, and the only locality 

 given " off Sydney Heads," is a wide term indeed. 



Genus, CERATELLA, Gray, 1868. 



Ceratella fusca, Gray. 



Ceratella fusca, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Nov. 26, 1868, p. 579, 

 fig. 2 ; Carter, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist. 4 series, Yoi. XI. 

 No. 61, Jan. 1873, pp. 8-10; Bale, Catalogue of Australian 

 Hydroid Zoophytes, 1884, p. 48 ; von Lendenfeld, Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. N.S.W., 1884, Vol. IX. p. 612. 



Bab.— Head of Bondi Bay, N.S.W. (J E. Gray) ; Wreck Bay 



south of Jervis Bay, N.S.W., found on the beach after S.E. gale 



(J. Brazier, 1870); Broughton Islands north of Port Jackson, 



33-35 fathoms (Australian Museum, Nov. 1880) ; Port Jackson 



Heads (Australian Museum, Sept. 1879) ; off Port Jackson Heads 



(N.S.W. Fisheries Commission) no record of depth, specimens in 



Australian Museum ; Bondi Bay, found in grass wrack after S.E. 



gale (T. Whitelegge, May 30, 1886). 

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