310 E. A. BRIGGS. 
only a shallow basin-shaped portion of the base, and Bale 
suggests that “‘it would seem probable therefore that the 
opening so formed may be the normal channel of exit of 
the contents.”’ 
Dimensions.— | mim. 
Hydroclade-bearing internode(single one) length 0°61 — 0°73. 
Hydroclade-bearing internode (double one) length0°97 — 1°38. 
Hydroclade-bearing internode, diameter .-- 0°28 —0°36 
Hydroclade internode, length ... se ... 0°42 —0°45. 
Hydroclade internode, diameter ... se . 0°12 -0°17 
Hydrotheca, depth... Sa ee . 0°29 — 0°31 
Hydrotheca, diameter at mouth inten nace 0°26 — 0°28 
Hydrotheca, diameter at mouth Ge aspect) 0°36 —0°40: 
Gonangium, length... oe 2hre a sat 1°31 
Gonangium, greatest diameter ... me ... 0°73 — 0°80 
Localities.—D’ Kntrecasteaux Channel, Tasmania, 2 - 11 
fathoms; Within Thouin or Wineglass Bay, Freycinet 
Peninsula, Tasmania, 11 fathoms; Off Thouin or Wineglass 
Bay, Freycinet Peninsula, Tasmania, 80 fathoms. 
Distribution.— Previously recorded ‘from Indian Ocean 
(Lamouroux); Hobart, Tasmania; Bass Strait (Kirchen- 
pauer); Griffith Point, Portland, Queenscliff, Victoria (Bale); 
Station 161, off Port Phillip, Victoria, 38 fathoms (Allman); 
Victorian Coast (Marktanner-Turneretscher); Station 36, 
off Botany Bay, 23—20 fathoms; Station 48, off Wollongong, 
New South Wales, 55-56 fathoms (Ritchie); Great Aus- 
tralian Bight, 40—100 fathoms (Bale); Seven miles east of 
Cape Pillar, Tasmania, 100 fathoms (Briggs). 
Genus HALICORNARIA, Busk. 
HALICORNARIA FURCATA, Bale, var. INTERMEDIA, Bale. 
Halicornaria intermedia, Bale, Biological Results ‘‘ Endeavour,” 
11, 1, 1914, p. 53, pl. v, fig. 2, pl. vii, figs. 3, 4. (Not Mali- 
cornaria intermedia, Billard, Les Hydroides de I’Expedition 
du Siboga, 1, Plumulariide, 1913, p. 65, pl. iv, fig. 37). 
