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Gatty, to whom we have on many occasions been deeply 
indebted for interesting additions to the number of species, 
more especially of polyzoa. We presume her intention is to 
combine the name of our great poet with certainly one of the 
most beautiful objects in the class to which Tennysonia 
belongs. 
Sub-Kingdom CHLENTERATA. 
Class Actrnozoa. Order AstEROIDA. 
Fam. CorRNULARIADA#, n. fam. 
Gen. Cornularia, Lamk. 
C. australis, n. sp. Pl. XXXVI, figs. 7, 8. 
Cells smooth, or slightly wrinkled only at base; white. 
Hab. Australia, Wiss 2. Gore. 
The only original figures of Cornularia with which I am 
acquainted are those by Cavolini (‘ Mem. terza,’ pl. ix, figs. 
11, 12); for that given by Lamouroux (‘ Exposit.,’ pl. Ixxviii, 
fig. 4) is a bad copy of Cavolini’s fig. 12, in which the trans- 
verse wrinkling of the cell-walls is omitted, although this 
condition enters into the specific character, whilst Blainville’s 
figure (‘ Actinol.,’ pl. Ixxxiu, fig. 4), though slightly altered 
in position, is evidently merely a copy from Cavolini. Fig. 
11 of Cavolini represents the cells of the natural size, spread- 
ing over the surface of a Balanus; and in his description 
(loc. cit., p. 250), under the name of Tubolara cornocopia, 
(Tubularia cornucopie, Pallas), he states that it is found 
upon pebbles and Balani, though he observes that Pallas, 
who appears to have been the first to notice the species, 
had met with it dry on other marine productions. It 1s pos- 
sible, therefore, that Cornularia cornucopie, as it ought to 
be named, may occur on fuci as well as upon hard bodies at 
the bottom of the sea. Cavolini’s admirable description of 
the genus has left scarcely anything to be added by subse- 
quent observers, and his figures suffice to show the distinct- 
ness of Pallas’s species from that we have described above. 
The differences, so far as they can be determined from the 
scanty means at present in our power, seem to consist in the 
smooth, even, white walls of the cell in Cornularia australis, 
which in C. cornucopie are more or less wrinkled (‘‘ per 
totam longitudinem rugis annulosi), and, according to Cavo- 
lini, of an orange colour (“un colore che si accosta a quello 
dell’ arancio”’) (lutei, Pallas). We have also been informed 
by Prof. Allman, who is well acquainted with the Mediter- 
ranean species, that C. australis is distinct from it. 
