140 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. 



(27) Sarcophyll am ausirale (Kolliker). "Anat. System, besclirei- 

 bung der Alcyonaria," p. 121. 

 The specimen sent me agrees in many of its anatomical details 

 closely with K(3lliker's species. The details in which it 

 differs from it are such as might Ije expected in a young 

 specimen. Kdlliker's specimens varied from 196 to 

 262mm. ; this specimen is only 115mm. in length. 

 Kolliker's specimens possessed 32 to 47 leaves on each 

 side; this specimen has only 28. The leaves of Klil- 

 liker's specimens bear four or five rows of polypes ; the 

 leaves of this specimen bear only two. In Kolliker's 

 specimens there were numerous small calcareous needles 

 in the leaves, and a few small needles in the stalk ; in 

 this specimen, I cannot find any spicules at all. 

 From the consideration of all these and other facts, I thought 

 it better to refer this specimen to the species mentioned, 

 than to consider it a new species, and give it a new name. 

 It is very desirable to obtain more specimens of this 

 pennatulid from the same locality. The only specimens 

 hitherto obtained come from New Holland and Australia 

 (sic.) 



{28) Clavidaria flava (sp. nov.) 



Colony parasitic on old bivalve shell. 



>'Stolon thin and ribbon-like, much branched, bearing a few 

 polypes at intervals of 4mm. and upwards. 



Poli/pes partially retracted ; the calyx and tentacles are with- 

 drawn into the lower part of the tubular body. Length 

 in the retracted condition, 4 to 6mm.; diameter 1 to Hmm. 



Colour, bright orange. 



Sincules orange-coloured, very numerous in both stolon and 

 polypes ; spindles club and double club-shaped, covered 

 with numerous wart-like processes -1 to -ISmm. long. 



{29) Primnoellaflagelluvi{V) (Studer). "Monatsbericht d. k. preuss 

 Akad d. wiss., Berlin, 1878," p. 644; Wright, Challenger 

 Reports, p. 85, PI. xvii, 1.1a. 

 The very small specimen I received apparently belongs to this 

 species, but it was too small and imperfect to identify 

 with any degree of certainty. 



