34 Descriptions of New, 



These words all radically mean " hand," and they are 

 all the same, though disguised by prefixes, postfixes, and 

 phonetic change, see § 3. Compare Api ma = Peel 

 River ma = " hand." As to 7}iaTah 5, the commonest Aus- 

 tralian form of the word for '' hand" is m-r. Major 

 Mitchell observes that when the natives of Regent Eiver 

 gave him rtiatto for 5, they held up the fingers. At the 

 same place 'inatto matto is 10, with which compare Tanna 

 kirilum hiriliiin 10, see § 14, 6. 



In conclusion, it seems certain that the Australian and 

 Tasmanian numeral-words are Oceanic. The wider ques- 

 tion as to the relationship between the Australian group of 

 dialects and the Oceanic could not with propriety be entered 

 upon here, but may be best entered upon from the solid 

 foundation thus laid as to the numerals. 



AnT. II. — Descriptions of New, or Little Known, 

 Polyzoa. 



Paet X. 

 By p. H. MacGillivray, M.A., M.R.C.S., F.L.S. 



[Eead 11th March, 1886.] 



Family Catenicellid^. 



Catenicella urnula, n. sp. PI. I., fig. 2. 

 ZocECiA vase-shaped; mouth slightly hollowed below; 

 anterior surface with seven large shallow fenestrse ; lateral 

 processes large, erect, sharply pointed, frequently a small 

 avicularium on the front of one or both, a shallow hollow on 

 the superior surface. Posterior surface with a narrow, 

 vertical, thickened band, from which two processes extend 

 on each side to the margin of the cell, leaving shallow 

 depressions. 



Port Phillip Heads, Mr. J. B. Wilson. 



This species, of which I have only seen one small frag- 

 ment, probably attains a considerable size. It is allied to 



