THE ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTOEY. [FIFTH SERIES.] " per litora spargite museum. Naiades, et circhm vitreos considite fontes: Pollice virgineo teneros hie carpite flores : rioribuB et piotum, divse, replete eanistrum. At vos, o Nymphse Craterides, ite sub undas ; Ifee, recurvato variata corallia trunco Vellite muscosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas Ferte, Deae pelagi, et pingui conchylia succo." N.Parthenii Giannettasii Eel. 1. No. 43. JULY 1881. I. — Contributions towards a General History of the Marine Polyzoa, By the Kev. Thomas Hincks, B.A., F.E-.S. [Continued from vol. vii. p. 161.] [Plates I.-IV.] VI. POLYZOA FROM BASS'S STRAITS. The present paper will be devoted chiefly to a report on the new forms which occur in the dredgings obtained by Capt. W. H. Gawne Warren in Bass's Straits, and presented by him to the Liverpool Free Museum*. The whole collection, which we owe to Capt. Warren's intelligent use of opportunities which are commonly wasted, is a very interesting one ; and he has the merit of having made an important addition to our knowledge of the fauna of the Australian seas. The material submitted to me for examination is compa-* A list of the species detected in ttis very interesting collection, in-cluding a diagnosis of sucli as appear to be new, lias been presented to the Liverpool Philosophical and Literary Society, and will be published in its ' Transactions.' The type specimens are deposited in the Liverpool Free Museum. Ann. & Mag. N, Hist. Ser. 5. Vol. viii. 1
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