AUTHOR'S PREFACE. 



The writer would like at the outset to acknowledge 

 his great indebtedness to Hincks' work on the "Hydroid 

 Zoophytes." He has, however, studied the local species 

 sufficiently carefully in their haunts, and with the 

 microscope, to enable him to write from personal 

 observation. 



The figures, except those ascribed to other authors, 

 are from sketches from nature by the author. 



The specimens in the Collection here described (unless 

 otherwise stated) were presented to the Hastings and 

 St. Leonards Museum, in 1899, by the Author. 



P. J. Ktjfford. 



October, 1899. 



