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oesophagus were 24 — 26^ long. The filaments contained very few capsules 41 ji long and 18 11 broad 

 like those in the body-wall and fairly many 19 — 22 u long and thick- walled. In a polyp closely examined 

 by me the number of mesenteries was 42 (20 on the one side and 22 on the other). 



In the collections of the Riksmuseum there is a small colony of a Parazoanthns species from 

 the Faeroes, but badly preserved. The nematocysts mostly resemble those of P. kaddoni, but might 

 quite well belong to P. anguicomtcs though not to P. dixoni, as they agree with the shortest ones in 

 P. haddoni and anguicomus, while those of dixoni agree better with the longest ones. A transverse 

 section of the body-wall of this form is given in fig. 6, PI. VII, of this paper. 



Appendix. 



During the printing of this work a paper has appeared dealing with the genus Epizoauthus 

 (Lwowsky: Revision der Gattung Sidisia Gray (Epizoanthus Auct.), Zool. Jahrb. Abt. Systematik 

 Bd. 34, pp. 557 — 614, 1913). As this paper among other things sets up a new diagnosis for the genus 

 I wish to discuss here the extent of this genus. 



With regard first of all to the name, the author has replaced Epizoanthus with Sidisia, a change 

 that would be justifiable according to modern rules of priority, if the type of Sidisia, S. darlcsi, were 

 iu reality identical with E.incriistatus. Haddon and Shackleton (1891) certainly state, that this is 

 the case, but they nowhere indicate, that they have had type specimens of S. barlesi for investigation. 

 For this reason, as also that the Zoanthidae are difficult to determine from outer characteristics, I have 

 above used the name Epizoanthus instead of Sidisia. Moreover I am in agreement with Haddon (1891, 

 p. 634): "We do not propose to keep the name Sidisia for the genus, although it has priority and for 

 this reason; it was solely erected for a species which is only a variety of an older form; and the name 

 has only been occasionally retained for this variety of that particular species, whilst Epizoanthus has been 

 universally adopted for the more typical forms of this genus. Both names were originated by Gray 

 and we have therefore less hesitation in keeping to the latter". 



In his diagnosis of the genus Sidisia Lwowsky states, that the sphincter in its proximal part 

 may be entodermal as also that an encircling sinus may occasionally be present; he relies here on his 

 investigation of S. gracilis. But in my opinion S. gracilis is in all probability not a Sidisia but a Para- 

 zoanthus species. So far as I can find, namely, the sphincter figured of E. gracilis is not a mesogloeal 

 but an entodermal structure. That it seems mesoglceal in the distal part is due to this, that the 

 section has cut through not only the body-wall but also a mesentery. And since the entodermal 

 sphincter in the genus Parazoanthus becomes mesoglceal from cutting through the mesoglcea of the 

 mesenteries, a great part of the sphincter in sections which just meet the mesenteries may have the 

 appearance of being a weak mesoglceal sphincter. Such figures, like that drawn by L, wow sky for 



