166 NATURAL SCIENCE [September 



us very little satisfaction that summer, as the only specimens we 

 obtained, which were not collected along shore at other times, were 

 a small holothurian and a large spatangoicl The former was 

 dredged oft' Port Henderson and proves to be an interesting and 

 probably new species of Holothuria. The latter, Mcoma, were 

 dredged outside the reef at Drunkenman Cay, and were almost the 

 only animals which the dredge brought up from the clear sandy 

 bottom. In the lakes and in the slashes, very little animal life 

 was brought to light, while in the harbour proper the dredge soon 

 clogged with the enormous quantities of Toxopncustcs. 



From Port Henderson we made collecting trips to different 



places, two of which are worthy of special mention. The first of 



these was on the last day of May, and had Montego Bay and the 



Bogue Islands as its objective point. Aside from the opportunity 



to see the central and western parts of Jamaica, this excursion 



proved something of a disappointment. To the east of the harbour 



at Montego Bay, the shore is rocky and offers very much the same 



collecting as that at Port Henderson, while the only new animal 



which the sandy beaches afforded was a large white Hippa. On 



some of the reefs and on an old pile of masonry near the middle of 



the harbour, a tubicolous annelid occurs which is very noticeable on 



account of the shape and bright colours of its tentacle-gills. There 



seem to be two of these, one coiled on each side in a spiral, 15-20 



mm. high. They were usually green, yellow, purple or red, but 



often these colours would be mingled with white, so that they were 



very handsome objects, resting apparently on the surface of the 



rock. If the rock was struck, however, they all disappeared as if 



by magic. The Bogue Islands lie a little distance to the west of 



Montego Bay, and as they are covered with mangroves, the sight of 



them arouses expectations of collecting like that in the Port Royal 



Lakes. But such hopes are soon shattered, for even a careful 



examination fails to show any superabundance of animal life. A 



large buff and brown SticJiopus, the commonest species at Port 



Royal, is plentiful, and the same may be said of crabs, especially 



' fiddlers.' Two species of star-fish were found, and a very few 



Cassiopea. Man-of-war birds were very abundant and much tamer 



than near Kingston. The roots of the mangroves were in manv 



places well covered with sea-weed, but the expected animal life was 



wanting. Surface towing in the evening brought to light nothing 



of interest. We spent one night at Montpelier, about ten miles 



inland from Montego Bay, and provided with an excellent hotel. 



An early morning ramble along a mountain brook introduced us to 



some interesting crustaceans and arachnoids. Small black crabs, 



the females of which were carrying eggs, were common among 



the stones, but like the shrimps, which were abundant in the 



