288 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



With regard to the question of priority of name of H. 

 flexile. Dr. Billard^ publishes the following note : — "Apres 

 avoir examine le type d/Allman, je suis d'avis qu'on peut 

 admettre la synonj'mie entre I'H. flexile Allm. et I'H. giaeile 

 comme I'a avance le premier Hartlaub [1905] (p. 611). La 

 priorite revient au nom d'Allman, le memoiredu "Challenger" 

 etant date du 9 Mai 1888 et celui de Bale du 27 Juin de la 

 meme annee." 



Family CAMPANULARID^. 



Genus Thyroscyphus, AUman. 



Thyroscyphus simplex (Laiiiouroti.L'). 



Laomedea siiiijtle.r, Lamouroux, Hist. Polvp. Cor. Flex., 1816, 

 p. 206. 



('niiipanularia tridentata, Bale, Proc. Koy. Soc. Vict., (n.s.), vi., 

 1893, p. 98, pi. iii., fig. 3. 



SertidareUn fn'deiifntd, Hartlaub, Abli. Nat. Ver. Hamburs:, 

 xvi., 1900, p. 46, fig. 21. 



Thy rose i/ph/is trt(h'iit(itus, Hartlaub, Zool. Jalirb. Syst., xiv., 

 1901, p. 369, pi. xxi., fig. 14, pi. xxii., fig. 23. Id., 

 Ritchie, Tians. Roy. Soc. Edinb., xlvii., 1909, p. 74, fig. 

 la, b. 



Thi/rosri/idiKs siiii)ile.v, Billard, C. R. Acad. Sci., cxlviii., 

 1909, p. 1065; Id., Billard, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool., (9), ix., 

 1909, p. 312. 



Far((sei/jdiiis shiijde,i', Ritchie, Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist. P^dinb., xx., 

 1911, p. 160, fig. I. 



Only a few colonies, the largest 14 mm. in height, i-epresent 

 this species. The specimens agree in all respects with the 

 description and figuie given by Bale. 



After an examination of Lamouroux' type collection Billai-d 

 has declared HaiiijxuiKlaria tridentata, Bale, identical with 

 Ldoiiiedea'iiiiiqile.r, Lamouroux. Ritchie has placetl it under a 

 new genus as Farascyplius shuple-v. 



s Billard— Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool., (n.s.), xi., 1910, p. 3. 



