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Other Polyzoa by using sand grains to thickly surround the 

 zooecia, so that the colony appears as a mass of thin branching 

 and anastomosing pipes of agglutinated sand. 



Heavy southerly weather came on, and toward evening we 

 shaped a course for St. Leonard's, where we stayed the night. 



In the morning we went ashore and did some collecting. The 

 sand-hopper of the beach I found to be identical with Talorchestia 

 novce-hollandice, so far only recorded from New South Wales, but 

 which I have also taken at Beaumaris, and have just lately 

 received specimens collected by Mr. E. Ashby, from Brighton, 

 South Australia. 



The water was too rough for dredging except under shelter ot 

 a kindly shore, so we went north and rounded Indented Head 

 and Point St. George to the westward, and dredged on .Prince 

 George Bank in about two fathoms of water, going in the 

 direction of Portarlinglon. The bottom is of soft rock and 

 sand with a good deal of weed in places, and we got a 

 good assortment of material. Worms were very plentiful. 

 Of the unsegmented ones, some Polyclad Planarians of normal 

 flat leaf-like form were plentiful, and several fairly large and small 

 Nemertines. These are easily recognized by anyone when they 

 eject their long thread-like proboscis. Of the errant Polycl.teta, 

 representatives of the genera Polynoi and Lepidesthenia were 

 taken. The family to which these belong are peculiarly char- 

 acterized by the possession of scales on their backs, so that they 

 dititer much from a general worm-like appearance. Another errant 

 form of the genus Glycera may be mentioned, as it has not yet 

 been recorded, so far as I know, from Australia. 



Of sedentary worms we collected several species of Terebellids, 

 and of them one specimen of the interesting genus Pectinaria, 

 which has the head protected by large stiff chsetas of a golden 

 colour. Its tube is prettily formed of sand grains, and the worm 

 is short and stout (the hind portion having become degenerated), 

 and ends in a little recurved leaf-like process. 



After working this ground we called in at Portarlington, and 

 later left for Melbourne. 



The following list of Stalk-eyed Crustaceans and Mollusca 

 collected during the cruise is supplied by Mr. F. E. Grant : — 



Brachyura. — 



Micippa parvirostris, Miers ... West Channel 



Leptomithrax spinulosus, Haswell ... Do. 



Halimus tumidus, Dana. ... Off Queenscliff 



H. truncatipes, Miers ... Prince George Bank 



Micippoides longimanus, Haswell ... Do. 



Pilumnus monilifera, Haswell ... Do. 



P. terrsereginae, Haswell ... Do. 



Litocheira bispinosa, Kinahan ... Do. 



