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LVIL 



KEPOETS ON THE ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS MADE IN 

 TOEKES STEAITS BY PEOFESSOE A. C. HADDON, 



1888-1889. 



HYDBOIDA AND POLYZOA. By E. KIEKPATEICK (British 

 Museum). (Plates XIV.-XVII.) 



[COMHTTNTCATED BY PROFESSOR HADDON.] 

 [Read November 19, 1890.] 



Most of the specimens were collected in the passages between the 

 coral reefs, in depths of fifteen to twenty fathoms, off Murray 

 Island (Station 14), and from Albany Passage in ten fathoms 

 (Station 8). Only a few specimens were collected at the other 

 stations mentioned in Professor Haddon's list. 



The published accounts of collections of Hydroida and Polyzoa 

 from Torres Straits are those of Busk, in the Appendix to Yol. I. 

 of the " Voyage of the ' Rattlesnake,' " 1852 ; and of Busk and 

 Allman, in the " Challenger " Reports on the Polyzoa and 

 Hydroida respectively. Several species of Hydroida from this 

 region are described in Kirchenpauer's writings. 



Bale describes in his Catalogue of Australian Hydroid Zoo- 

 phytes all the Hydroida that had been found in this region up 

 to 1884. Descriptions of zoophytes from Australian seas are 

 found in the works of Lamarck and Lamouroux, and doubtless 

 many of the species described are from Torres Straits. 



A large amount of material was dredged in Torres Straits by 

 the " Chevert " expedition in 1875, and by the " Alert " expedi- 

 tion in 1881-2 ; but the Hydroida and Polyzoa have not yet been 

 worked out. 



Specimens of Hydroida and Polyzoa were collected at the 

 following stations : — 



Station 2.— Twenty miles N.N.W. of Warrior Island (Tud.), 

 5-|- fms. ; broken shells. 



SCIEN. PROC. R.D.S. — VOL. VI., PART X. 2 Y 



