APLIDIUM MKU/KUM. 27 



CHAXXKL ISLANDS. Parella Bay, Guernsey (Norman). 

 First record, Alder & Hancock; coll. Norman 



[1865]. 



This beautiful little Aplidium was found studding 

 the slender fronds of a sea-weed, in yellow drop-like 

 masses, in great abundance by the Rev. A. M. Norman. 

 The masses are generally detached, but occasionally 

 two are united by a creeping fibre. 



b. Post-abdomen elongated. 



3. Aplidium glomeratum sp. nor. 



(Plate LV, figs. 3-6 ; and PI. LVI, fig. 7.) 



Colony ovate, convex, composed of unequal-sized 

 clusters united into a common mass below (PL LV, 

 fig. 6) ; semi-transparent, yellowish-green, attached by 

 a broad base. Individuals (PL LVI, fig. 7) yellowish- 

 fawn-coloured, generally from two to six placed irregu- 

 larly in each cluster. Post-abdomen rather long. 



Size of mass three-quarters of an inch long by half 

 an inch wide (19 by 12 mm.). 



Hab. Between tide-marks. 



CHANNEL ISLANDS. Gouliot Caves, Sark (Norman). 

 First record. Alder & Hancock ; coll. Norman 



[1865]. 



A single individual of this curious species was 

 obtained by Mr. Norman among the numerous asci- 

 dians, zoophytes, and sponges which cover the walls 

 of the Gouliot Caves in Sark. 



4. Aplidium nutans Johnston. 

 (Plate LV, figs. 7-9 (?) ; and fig. 100 in text.) 



Aplidium nutans JOHNSTON in Loud. Mag. Nat. Hist. VII 

 [1834], p. 16, f. 5; FORBES & HANLEY Brit. Moll. I [1848], 

 p. 12 ; [COCKS in Rep. R. Cornw. Polyt. Soc. for 1849 

 (1850), p. 73; AXSTKJI cV LATHAM Channel Isl. (1862), p. 

 219]. 



