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o'. Fur woolly M. leucolacJincea. 



c". Fur not woolly M. foina. 



a". Fur of unLforni colour throughout M. tovfcea. 



There remains the supposed species J/, intermedia, the 

 name given by Severtzoff * to specimens which he described 

 as being intermediate in character between M. martes and 

 M. foina. As, however, the only intermediate character 

 specified was the colour of the throat, and the whole descrip- 

 tion of the supposed species is inadequate, I can only for the 

 present treat this name as a synonym of M. martes. I 

 imagine that the description was made through ignorance of 

 the variability of the colour and size of the throat-patch in 

 the martens. 



LXVIII. — Note on the Tunicate Fauna of Australian Seas. 

 ^Y W. A. Herdman, D.Sc, F.R.S., Professor of Natural 

 History in University College, Liverpool. 



For some years I have been engaged in studying a large 

 collection of Australian Tunicata sent to me by the Trustees 

 of the Australian Museum at Sydney, in order that I might 

 prepare one of their museum catalogues. That work is now 

 finished : I have returned the collection of type specimens to 

 the Curator of the Australian Museum, and have deposited 

 the MS. and drawings of the catalogue f in the hands of the 

 Agent-General for New South Wales. As I understand it 

 may be some time before the Trustees of the Museum are 

 able to publish this catalogue, I think it will be useful 

 if I make known to fellow-workers what species are 

 described in my MS. I also add to the list other species 

 which have been described from Australia but are not repre- 

 sented in the museum collection^ so as to make this a 

 complete record of the Tunicate fauna of Australian seas so 

 far as is known to me. 



List of Australian Tunicata. 



In the following list the sixty-three species described and 

 figured as new in the Catalogue of the Tunicata in the Austra- 

 lian Museum are denoted by an asterisk. 



* Proc. Mosc. Soc. Nat. vol. viii. p. 2 (1873), translated by J. Carl 

 Crsemers in Ann. & Map. Nat. Hist. 18715, ser. 4, vol. xviii. pp. 45, 40. 

 t Over 300 pages of description and 45 octavo plates. 



