NOTES ON TASMANIAN HYDROZOA. 305 
Distribution.—Previously recorded from Griffith Point, 
Victoria (Bale); Laysan Island, Hawaiian Archipelago 
(Hartlaub); Gulf of Manaar, Ceylon (Thornely); Flying- 
Fish Cove, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean (Ritchie); Great 
Australian Bight, 40-100 fathoms (Bale). Billard records 
the presence of P. buskii at nine stations in the eastern 
part of the Indian Archipelago (Siboga Expedition). 
PLUMULARIA PROCUMBENS, Spencer. 
(Plate: X,\fig.1.) 
Plumularia procumbens, Spencer, Trans. Roy. Soc. Vict., u, 1891, 
p. 130, pls. xxi — xxiii; zd., Bale, Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict., (n.s.), 
wi, 1695, p, 11d, pl. v, figs. 11, 12; ed., Bale, Biological 
Results ‘‘Endeavour,” 11, 1, 1914, p. 29. 
The specimens of this species in the present collection 
agree with Spencer’s description and with the type in the 
Australian Museum, except for the presence of a nemato- 
phore on some of the short intermediate internodes of the 
hydrocladia, an arrangement which Bale has described in 
the case of specimens of P. procumbens from Port Phillip 
and the Great Australian Bight. 
Dimensions.— 
Hydroclade-bearing internode, length _... 0°61 —0°64 mm. 
Hydroclade-bearing internode, diameter 0°12—0°14 ,, 
Hydroclade internode, hydrothecate, length 0°29—0°31_,, 
Hydroclade internode, intermediate,length 0°10—0°12 ,, 
Hydroclade internode, diameter ... -»» 0 05 —0°04 -,, 
Hydrotheca, .epth ... hs a ... 0°05—-0°06_ ,, 
Hydrotheca, diameter at mouth ... ne 0°08 ,, 
Supracalycine sarcotheca, length ... we O00 0205 ye 
Locality.—Off Thouin or Wineglass Bay, Freycinet Pen- 
insula, Tasmania, 80 fathoms. 
Distribution.— Previously recorded from Port Phillip, Vic- 
toria (Spencer); Great Australian Bight, 40-100 fathoms 
(Bale). 
T—November 4, 1914. 
