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the genus Cavernularia comes near the ancestral form of 

 Pennatulaceae, and that in the Alcyonaceous genera, Sarco- 

 phytum and Anthomastus we have Alcyonaceae which show 

 certain features of resemblance to a Veretillid. I had not read 

 Professor Hickson's Monograph at that time, but it is curious 

 that I had thought, at first sight, that my form belonged to 

 the Alcyonaceae and either to the genus Sarcophytum or to 

 Anthomastus. It is possibly, however, only a case of 

 convergence. 



Locality, etc.: — "Pieter Faure" No. 11437A — Off the 

 South Head of the Tugela River. Depth 12 — 14 fathoms. 

 Collected by shrimp trawl. Nature of bottom, mud. Date of 

 collection, January 16th, 1901. 



LITERATURE. 



1872. Kolliker, A. Die Pennatuliden. Anatomisch-systematische Beschreibung 

 der Alcyonarien. Abth. I. Abh. a.d. Senckenb. Ges. 1870. Bds. VII and 

 VIII. 



1909. Thomson, J. Arthur and Simpson, J. J. An Account of the Alcyonarians 

 collected by the Royal Indian Marine Survey Ship Investigator in the 

 Indian Ocean. II. The Alcyonarians of the Littoral Area. Calcutta. 



191 1. Kiikenthal W. & Broch, Hj. Pennatulacea. — Wiss. Ergeb. d. deut. 

 Tiefsee Expedition auf dem Dampfer "Valdivia, " 1898 — 1899. Band 13, 

 Hft. II. Jena. 



1915. Thomson, J. Stuart. The Pennatulacea of the Cape of Good Hope and 

 Natal. Mem. & Proc. Man. Lit. & Phil. Soc. LIV. 



1916. Hickson, S. J. The Pennatulacea of the Siboga Expedition. Siboga — 

 Expeditie, Mon. XIV. Leiden. 



