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1 833, — and this is the first reoArd of its capture on the Irish coasts. 

 In its recent state it presents a beautiful appearance. The pecu- 

 liarity of its projecting snout, its oval and compressed body, shaded 

 on the back with a rich brownish carmine, of a brighter and more red- 

 dish colour on the sides, and silvery toward* the abdomen ; the body 

 hispid, covered with minute and rough scales, beautifully ciliated on the 

 margin; the mouth with very minute teeth, and very protractile, similar 

 to the Doree ; eyes very large, pupil a dark plum colour, the irides a 

 rich pink ; the first dorsal very strong and spinous, as also the ventrals ; 

 the membranous and emarginate rays of the dorsal of a yellowish tinge; 

 pro-operculum finely serrated. About six and a quarter inches in length 

 from the snout to the extremity of the caudal fin, and the body in depth 

 three inches ; the dorsal-fin rays are continuous, the first having very 

 strong spines. 



It is allied to the Zcinsc, or Dories, and is evidently a ground-feeding 

 fish, and a deep-water species. Like the Doree, its mouth is protractile, 

 and capable of much expansion, favouring the capture of soft and minute 

 animals that may float in its way ; for, like the Equulea, a noted little 

 fish of the Indian Ocean, it can suddenly form a tube-like projection of 

 its mouth. Its eyes, which are brilliant, are very large for the size of 

 the fish, and are such as seem peculiar to fishes feeding at considerable 

 depths, and which are seen in the genera Platysomus and Blepharis, of 

 the same sub-family. 



Peofessor J. Reay Greene then brought forward the following — 



ADDITIONS TO THE IRISH FA UNA. 



The first of these was an apparently new species of Brittle-Star, allied to 

 the Ophiocoma neglecta of Forbes, from which species it differed in the 

 shape and convexity of its disk, which presented, moreover, a cleft and 

 emarginate appearance opposite the insertion of each of the rays ; in 

 the pair of heart-shaped plates, situated within the margin of the disk, 

 by which the rays were subtended; in the shape of the upper ray plates, 

 which were of a somewhat transversely ovate form ; in the number of 

 spines (three or four on each side), with which the lateral ray plates 

 were provided ; and lastly, in the relative proportion Q • 4) between 

 diameter of the disk and the length of the rays. For this Brittle-Star he 

 would suggest the name of Amphiura Leachii. 



The second addition which he wished to record was a species of 

 sea-anemone, the Bunodea gemmacea of Gosse, hitherto unknown on the 

 Irish coast, though extremely abundant on the shores of Devonshire and 

 other parts of England. On the outside of Cork Harbour it seemed to be 

 equally common. 



Another species of Bunodes, which he supposed to be new, had like- 

 wise occurred to him, as also a peculiar form of Lucemaria {vide ** Pro- 

 ceedings of the Dublin University Zoological and Botanical Association,'* 

 March 19, 1858). 



