340 SIR SIDNEY F. HARMER ON 
The species here included in Menipea form a group with a considerable 
resemblance to one another in general /acze*. It will be observed that (No. 2 
excepted) they are all Southern forms, and that none of the Northern species- 
are included: — a result which has already been anticipated by Norman 
(1903, A.M.N.H.(7) xi. p. 578). 
1. Menipea crispa {Pall). (PL 17. fig. 17.) 
Cellularia crispa, Pallas, 1766, p. 71. 
Cellaria cirrata, Ellis and Solander, 1786, p. 29, pi. 4. figs, d, D. " East Indies." 
Menipea cirrata, Buslf, 1852', p. 21, pi. 20. figs. 1, 2. S. Africa. 
Menipea crispa, Marcus, 1922, p. 11. 
Easily recognizable by the characteristic inflexion of the branches, described' 
by Pallas and well represented in Ellis and Solander's fig. d, and by the very 
long, cylindrical frontal avicularia (Busk, tig. 1), situated on the proximal 
border of the opesia, which they overarch. There are typically six zooecia in 
the internode, which commonly has a single, large lateral avicularium. 
Three strongs curved spines, jointed at the base, are commonly present on 
the outer side of the distal end of the zooecium. 
2. Menipea flabellum [Ell. and Sol.). 
Cellaria flabellum (pars), Ellis and Solander, 1786, p. 28, pi. 4. figs, c, C. 
Ellis and Solander state that two distinct species are included in their 
account of C. fiahellum, one from the Bahama Is. and the other from the 
B. Indies. From the description it would appear that the figured specimens 
are from the Bahamas, although they might quite well be taken to represent 
the South African form to which this name has usually been applied. 
Perhaps a mistake in the locality of the specimens was made in the original 
account ; but in view of the uncertainty of the question I think it best ta 
use the name given by Busk, as indicated in the next species, for the 
common S. African species. M. flabellum, Ell. and Sol. may be regarded as- 
at present unrecognizable. 
3. Menipea ornata {Busk). 
? Cellularia Jloccosa, Pallas, 1766, p. 70. 
Cellularia ornuta, Busl>, 1852", p. 20, pi. 26. figs. 3, 4. Algoa Bay. 
Menipea flabellum, Busk, 1884, p. 21. Simon's Bay, Cape of Good Hope. 
,, ,, Marcus, 1922, p. 13, figs. 7 a~c. 
Flabellaris flabellum, Waters, 1898, J. L. S. xxvi, p. 672. 
Internodes often increasing regularly in width from the proximal to the 
distal end, their lateral margins nearly straight ; the number of constituent 
zooecia reaching at least 13. Marginal avicularia and spines wanting. 
Frontal avicularia inconspicuous, not prominent, often confined to the zooecia 
E, F, and G ; when on F and G occurring on tlie part of the zooecium 
on the proximal side of the joint, as shown in Busk's fig. 3. 
