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wrinkled transversely at their origin, widening out towards their 

 termination. 



Polypites large, with a long peduncular portion between the 

 end of the perisarc and the base of the tentacles, and with a large 

 proboscis surrounded by about twenty tentacles. 



Gronophores (?). 



The solitary specimen is about one and a-half inches in height, 

 and two inches in breadth. The characters of the perisarc are here 

 sufficient to characterise the species. The diameter of the ultimate 

 ramules at their origin is about *14 mm., and at their termination 

 about *3 mm. Occasionally the peduncular part of a polypite 

 bifurcates. 



Habitat. — Twenty miles N.N.W. of Warrior Island ; 5| fms. 

 (Station 2). 



Eudendrimn generalis, Lendenfeld. 



(PI. xv., figs. 1, 2.) 



Specimens of this species come from two localities, viz. twenty 

 miles N.N.W. of Warrior Island, 5 J fms. (Station 2), and from 

 Murray Island, 15-20 fms. (Station 14). Dr. Lendenfeld 1 

 describes the male form of E. generalis as possessing four large 

 globular spermatophores, and the female as possessing moniliform 

 clusters of gonophores on irregular verticils of sexual tentacles. 



Seeing that the external form of the male and female gono- 

 phores respectively is here stated to be the reverse of what usually 

 obtains in this genus, it would have been desirable to give the 

 evidence of detailed observation as to the sexes of E. generalis. In 

 the absence of this, it may be permissible to doubt whether the 

 supposed male gonophores were not female, and vice versa. 

 Judging from Dr. Lendenfeld's specimen in the British Museum 

 the moniliform clusters appear to have grown from the base 

 of a hydranth, the body and tentacles of which have disappeared. 

 The sacs are filled with small, nucleated, and apparently sperma- 

 togenic cells, and not with yelk granules. The masses of cells are 

 situated between the ectoderm and endoderm, leaving a clear 

 linear space bounded by endoderm along the centre of each linear 



1 Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. vol. ix. Part 2, p. 351, Plate VI. 



