1 84 Mr. Lingwood's Outline of a 



of Scotland, the remarkable zoophyte, for the reception of 

 which J have constituted the genus Iluanthos, It is a free 

 Actinia, about an inch and a half in length, the body large 

 above, but tapering at its posterior extremity to a point. The 

 mouth is round and rather small, surrounded by a circle of 

 numerous long filiform tentacula, which are nearly equal in 

 thickness throughout their lengths. The body is of a pink 

 colour, with regular distant longitudinal white stripes : the 

 tentacula are greenish, with a dark line down the middle of 

 each*. It is probable the animal fixes itself in mud by means 

 of its attenuated extremity, which I regard as analogous to the 

 terminations of Virgularia and Pennatula. In its anatomy it 

 differs not from other Actinice, save that its ovaries converge. 

 I propose to name the genus Iluanthos, from IXv^, mud, and 

 avdo<;, a flower ; and the species Iluanthos Scoticus, 



REFERENCE TO PLATE III. 



Actinia hiserialis, and Iluanthos Scoticus. 



XXI. — A short Outline of a Fauna for Part of Hereford- 

 shire. By R. M. LiNGWooD, Esq., F.L.S. 



The district included in the following list lies S.E. of the town 

 of Hereford, and is exceedingly interesting in a geological 

 point of view, as it comprises the Townhope Valley of Mr. Mur- 

 chison^s Silurian Regions ; and the remainder is the Old Red 

 Sandstone ; it is about ten miles long from N.E. to S.W., and 

 six broad from N.W. to S.E. I have thought that a list of 

 the animals and birds might not be unacceptable to some of 

 your readers. I have followed the nomenclature of Jenyns's 

 British Vertebrata. 



Mammalia. 



Meles Taxus. (Badger.) Not uncommon. 



Mustela Putorius. (Polecat.) Common. 



vulgaris. (Weasel.) Common. 



Erminea. (Stoat.) Common. I have a specimen shot in 



February of this year, quite white except the back of the head and 

 the tip of the tail. 



* Resembling very nearly the tentacula of Rupp's Actinia fUformis. 



