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are shaped something like an anchor with a very strong, stubby 

 shank and the two flukes ending in apertures which open in oppo- 

 site directions; that is, if a gonangium is lying on one of its broad 

 sides, one opening is directed upward and the other downward. 

 Interspersed between the gonangia of the coppinia mass are normal 

 hydrothecae and a few straggly, irregular, branchlike structures with 

 neither hydrothecae nor nematophores. 



Locality. — Dredging station 5664, Macassar Strait near Kapopo- 

 sang, lat. 4° 43' 22" S., long. 118° 53' 18" E.; depth, 400 fathoms. 



Distribution. — Sagami Bay. Japan. 600 meters (Stechow). 



This species is very close to one described by me under the name 

 Lictorella cervicomis from Hawaii, 15 which differs from it in having 

 more nearly sessile hydrothecae and in having branches or phylacto- 

 gonia resembling deer horns, arching above the gonongia and sug- 

 gesting the name " cervicornis" 



Family SERTULARIDAE 



SERTULARIA DIVERGENS (Lamouroux) according to Bale 16 



Dynamena divergens Lamoueoux, Histoire des Polypiers Coralligenes 



flexibles, 1816, p. 180. 

 (?) Sertularia dtibia Habgitt, Hydroids of the Philippine Islands, 1924, 



p. 494. 



The species dredged by the Albatross agrees quite closely with the 

 description by Bale of Sertularia divergens (Lamouroux), but 

 neither agrees with the figures given by Lamouroux, which are very 

 inaccurate, but our specimen as well as Hargitt's description agrees 

 very closely with Bale's description and it is probably the same 

 species that the latter author regards as S. divergens. 



In this connection it seems desirable to point out the fact that 

 Hargitt's name for another new species /Sertularia nvinuta can not 

 hold, as that name is preoccupied by Bale in his work " On the 

 Hydroids of Southeastern Australia, etc." (1881, p. 90), in which 

 he gives the name Sertularia minuta to an extremely different 

 species, which name must have the priority. 



I do not propose a new name for this form S. minuta of Hargitt, 

 because it is extremely likely that it is the same species that was 

 described by Bale under the name Sertularia tenuis. 17 



Locality. — Dredging station 5413, between Cebu and Bohol, Lauis 

 Point, 10° 10' 35" N., 124° 3' 15" E. ; depth, 42 fathoms. 



Distribution. — Australia (Bale), several localities cited; (?) Phil- 

 ippine Islands (Hargitt). 



15 Hydroids of the Hawaiian Islands, U. S. Fish Commission Bulletin, 1903, pt. 3, 1905, 

 p. 946, pi. 10, figs. -3-9. 

 ■'••Australian Hydroid Zoophytes, 1884, p. 81, pi. 5, fig. 3 ; pi. 19, fig. 16. 

 " Catalogue of the Australian Hydroid Zoophytes, 1884. 



