[Proc. Eoy. Soc. Victoria, 19 (N.S.). Pt. II., 1906.] 



Art. YII. — Note on Caliyorgia flabellum from Port 

 Phillip. 



By Professor SYDNEY J. HICKSON, D.Sc, F.R.S. 



[Read 11th October, 1907.] 



In the Proceedings Royal Soc. Victoria, Vol. II., 1890, p. 138, 

 I gave the name Priuinoella australasiae, Gray, to a specimen 

 belonging to the Alcyonarian family Primnoidae, obtained by 

 Mr. J. B. Wilson at Port Phillip. Mr. J. Versluys, of 

 Amsterdam, has examined a fragment of the colony that is 

 still in my keeping, and informs me that the species is more 

 closely related to Caligorgia flabellum of Ehrenberg. I have 

 carefully re-examined the specimen with the help of Mr. 

 Versluys's recent memoir on the Primnoidae of the Siboga 

 Expedition, and I am convinced that his opinion is sound. 

 I ask therefore to correct n)y report by substituting the name 

 Caligorgia flabellum (Ehrenberg) for Primnoella australasiae 

 (Gray), in the list of species obtained at Port Phillip. 



