7b BRITISH TLIN1CATA. 



Colon// incrusting, greyish-drab or white-coloured. 

 Individual* of a little darker shade of the same colour, 

 with two linear yello\v bauds running from the 

 branchial to the cloaca! aperture, and continued 

 around each ; arranged in rather distant star-like 

 systems of from five to eight, but most frequently 

 six in each circle (PI. LXIIT, fig. 6). Branchial 

 <ij ii-rt a rr* rather small. 



Hal. On the underside of stones between tide- 

 marks, and adhering to Fuci. 



ENGLAND. [Brighton, Sussex (Merrifield) .~\ Tor- 

 quay, Devon (Alder}. Falmouth, Cornwall (Alder 

 [and.Ooc&s]). 



IRELAND. Belfast Bay, Antrim, dredged adhering 

 to Fuci, by Edmund Getty; [Clew Bay, Mayo] 

 (Thompson}. 



CHANNEL ISLANDS. [Guernsey (Ansted $' Latham'). ] 



Fii'xt record. -Thompson, 1844; coll. Getty. 



12. Botryllus miniatus sp. nov. 



(Plate LXIII, fig. 7; and fig. 129 in text.) 



Colo n i/ brownish-drab in colour. Individuals bright 

 orange-vermilion, with two closely-approximating, 

 deep-yellow, longitudinal lines, not continued around 

 the branchial apertures ; si/ steins rather closely set, 

 consisting of from eight to twelve individuals arranged 

 circularly (PI. LXIII, fig. 7, and fig. 129 in text). 



Hob. On the underside of a stone between tide- 

 marks (Alder). 



ENGLAND. Falmouth, Cornwall (Alder, 1847). 

 First rcrnrJ. Alder & Hancock; coll. Alder. 



This resembles the last species, of which it may 

 possibly be a variety, but differing in the bright 

 vermilion colour of the individuals, the greater number 



of them in each svstem, the closer arrangement of the 



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systems, and in the more compact yellow lines of the 



