54 BRITISH SPONGIADJE. 



13. MlCBOCIONA ATRA SANGUINE A, BOW., II, 138 ; I, PL 



XXXIII, fig. 368; PI. XXXIV, fig. 369; in, PI. 

 XXIV, figs. 1419. 



Habitat. Shetland, 1864, Messrs. Peach and 

 Jeffreys (fide Bowerbank in litt. ad A. M. JST.) ; Bud- 

 leigh-Salterton (Carter).* 



Genus 17. HTMEKAPHIA, Sow. 



1. HYMEEAPHIA VEEMICULATA, Bow., n, 141; i, PI. 1, 

 fig. 5; m, PL XXVI, figs. 13. 



1867 Bubaris vermiculata, Gray. Proc. Zool. Soc., p. 522. 

 1876 Hymeraphia vermiculata, var. ereda, Carter. Ann. Nat. 



Hist., ser. 4, vol. xviii, p. 307, pi. xii, fig. 4, and pi. xv, 



fig. 26 a, b. 



Habitat. -All the Shetland specimens are in the 

 form of a very thin crust, coating stones. Among the 

 " Porcupine " dredgings, however, were found " short, 

 cylindrical, angular, club-shaped sponges, becoming 

 massive, lobed, and lobulated, or compressed and 

 expanding flabellately." These sponges were about 

 three inches high. In anatomical and structural 

 characters they are stated by Carter to closely re- 

 semble the encrusting forms of H. vermiculata, which 

 was found with it. The localities of the specimens 

 lie " between the North of Scotland, the Shetland and 

 the Faroe Island, in depths varying from 114 to 640 

 fathoms. 3 ' 



* ' Ann. Nat. Hist./ ser. 4, vol. vii, 1871, p. 274. 



