Art. XVI. — A Catalogue of the Marine Polyzoa of 



Victoria. 



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



[Read 11th November, 1886.] 



As Professor M'Coy's " Prodromus of the Zoology of Yic- 

 toria/' in which I am fully describing and illustrating our 

 Polyzoa, is unavoidably slow of publication, and as there 

 are many observers interested in this department of our 

 Fauna, I propose giving a list of all the marine species with 

 which I am acquainted. To make it more useful, the 

 characters of the families and genera, with references to 

 the most readily available descriptions of the species, are 

 given, and a bibliography of the more important works and 

 papers on the subject is added. 



In preparing this catalogue the materials I have had at 

 my disposal iiave been specimens collected by myself in 

 Hobson's Bay and at Port Phillip Heads, a collection made 

 by Mr. H. Watts at Warrnambool and purchased for the 

 National Museum^ and others contributed by friends either 

 to the Museum or to myself. I am, above all, indebted to 

 my friend Mr. J. Bracebridge Wilson, for the generous 

 liberality with which he has placed at my disposal large 

 series of new and rare forms dredged at Port Phillip 

 Heads and at Western Port, accompanied by much valuable 

 information concerning them. His contributions to this 

 and, I may add, to other branches of marine zoology as 

 well as botany, have been invaluable, and without his aid, 

 so freely given, this record could not have been nearly so 

 extensive. Mr. Maplestone, for some time residing at Port- 

 land, has materially assisted me by the contribution of speci- 

 mens, some previously undescribed. Baron von Mueller has 

 kindly given me numerous specimens sent with algse from 

 various localities, and I have to thank other friends for their 

 assistance. 



Besides my colonial friends, I am under great obligations 

 to Mr. Hincks and Mr. Waters for the kindness with which 

 they have sent me many specimens for comparison, and 

 to Miss Jelly for large series of specimens from Europe 

 and other parts, which have been of great service. 



