Victor ian H<jlutJiar<>'ulea. 5 



form plates at the end of the poelia (present also in detirnuif us. 

 and rfsf/t'/is). Perfectly fresh material >vas used for examinatiun. 

 so that the possibility of destruction by an acid preservative is un- 

 tenable. 



Phyllophorus vkstikns, sp. nov. (Plate T., Figs. 2 (a), (b), (c), (d).) 



Localities. — Port Phillip Bay. Westernport Bay, and Victorian 

 'Coast line. 



Size, 70 X 25 mm., fusiform flexed dorsally. Tentacles 20. 

 ten outer, alternating with five pairs of inner, the outer dorsal 

 tentacles are about three times the length of the ventral, the ten- 

 tacles forming the inner crown do not vary in size. Tube feet 

 are thickly disposed over the whole surface of the body, no ar- 

 rangement in rows being anywhere visible. The calcareous ring 

 (Fig. 2) consists of ten very irregular and complex processes, 

 deeply imbedded in cartilage; the radial pieces have prolongations 

 posteriorly. In the perisome there are no calcareous deposits other 

 than large cribriform plates, at the extremities of the tube feet, 

 The tentacles are provided with rods, having expanded ends pierced 

 Avith several holes; they also exhibit irregularly distributed patclies 

 of small foliaceous ossicles (Fig. 2a, 2b, c, d, e). Polian vessel 

 and madreporal canal, single. The genitalia consist of numerous 

 comparatively short unbranched coeca, springing from each side 

 of the genital duct, for a distance of about 30 mm. ; in the type 

 they contain ova. and are of a bright yellow colour. 



The body colour of the animal is a brownish pink; tube feet, 

 white; tentacles, black. In life, it covers itself with stones, shells 

 and shore debris. 



This Holothurian is of frequent occurrence along our coast line, 

 though its habit of coating itself with debris would often protect 

 it from observation. The strong dorsal flexure invariably, noted 

 in all spirit specimens of this genus, would appear to lie a post 

 mortem contraction, as I have, in this species at least, never seen 

 it in life; the animal simply adheres and accommodates itself to 

 the surface to which it mav be attached. 



CxExrs roLorHiRus. 



CoLOCHiRUS SPINOSUS (Quoy and Gaimar 

 For synonymy, see 

 Theel (19). and 

 1897. Whitelegge (20), Colochirus spinosu 



