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ON SOME ACTINIARIA FROM AUSTRALIA AND OTHER DISTRICTS. By 
A. C. HADDON, M.A. (Cantab.), M.R.I.A., Professor of Zoology, Royal College of 
Science, Dublin, and J. E. DUERDEN, Assoc. R.C.Sc. (Lond.), Jamaica Institute, 
Kingston, Jamaica. (Prarns VII. ro X.) 
{Read January 23, 1895. | 
THIS communication is based upon a small collection of Actiniaria which was 
entrusted to one of us for description by Professor W. Baldwin Spencer of the 
Melbourne University. The specimens were, as a rule, well preserved in alcohol ; 
and they were accompanied with some cleverly executed coloured drawings, which 
we regret we are unable to reproduce in colours. Various circumstances delayed 
the completion of the undertaking; and as several other forms were forwarded to 
us for examination by Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell, of the Natural History Department 
of the British Museum, and by Prof. W. A. Herdman, of University College, 
Liverpool, we decided to publish the descriptions of these various specimens in 
one paper. 
The number of genera and species is too small and unrepresentative to warrant 
a disquisition on the classification of the Actiniaria in general. 
With the exception of one or two recent papers, full references to which are 
given in the text, the authors referred to are so well known that we have not 
occupied space by giving the particulars of publication. These are given at length 
in Dr. Andres’ Monograph, and in the ‘“ Revision of the British Actiniz ”: 1. Trans. 
Roy. Dub. Soc., 1889; 1. Trans. Roy. Dub. Soc., 1891. 
The following is a list of the eleven species which we now describe :— 
ZOANTHER. 
Brachyenemine. 
Zoanthus Shackletoni, n. sp.; Adam’s Bridge. 
Gemmaria Canariensis, n. sp. ; Canary Islands. 
Palythoa Gregorii, n. sp. ; East Africa. 
5 liscia, n. sp. ; East Africa. 
Macrocneminz. 
Epizoanthus egerie, n. sp.; South China Sea. 
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