THE ANNALS 
AND 
MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
[FIFTH SERIES.] 
eee stccvasiesess per litora spargite muscum, 
Naiades, et circiim vitreos considite fontes: 
Pollice virgineo teneros hic carpite flores: 
Floribus et pictum, dive, replete canistrum. 
At vos, o Nymphe Craterides, ite sub undas ; 
Iée, recurvato variata corallia trunco 
Vellite muscosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas 
Ferte, Dez pelagi, et pingui conchylia succo.” 
NV. Parthenti Giannettasii Eel. 1. 
No. 43. JULY 1881. 
1.— Contributions towards a General History of the Marine 
Polyzoa. By the Rev. THomas Hincxs, B.A., F.R.S. 
{Continued from vol. vii. p. 161.] 
[Plates I-IV. ] 
VI. POLYZOA FROM BASS’S STRAITS. 
THE present paper will be devoted chiefly to a report on the 
new forms which occur in the dredgings obtained by Capt. 
W. H. Cawne Warren in Bass’s Straits, and presented by 
him to the Liverpool Free Museum *. 
The whole collection, which wé owe to Capt. Warren’s 
intelligent use of opportunities which are commonly wasted, 
is a very interesting one; and he has the merit of having 
made an important addition to our knowledge of the fauna of 
the Australian seas. mE He AS 
The material submitted to me for examination is compa- 
* A list of the species detected in this very interesting collection, in- 
cluding a diagnosis of such as appear to be new, has been presented to the 
Liverpool Philosophical and Literary Society, and will be published in its 
‘Transactions.’ The type specimens are deposited in the Liverpool Free 
Museum. 
Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 5. Vol. vin. 1 
