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this species should have as yet occurred in England only on the coast of 

 Durham and Northumberland, and in Ireland in this part of the extreme 

 west. Only one specimen occurred to me, and this died in its transit 

 through the post to Mr. Gosse. 



Adamsia palliata. (Bohadsch.) 

 Strangford Lough and Belfast Bay— W. Thompson. Dublin Bay (?) 



Dr. Ball. I have also taken the variety called Crinopis by Mr. Gosse 



in Bantry Bay ; of a pure white colour, with a few minute pink spots ; 

 adhering to old shells of Purpura lapillus, tenanted, as usual, by Pagu- 

 rut Prideauxii. I think this species will be found generally distributed 

 around the coast One specimen lived some days in confinement ; it left 

 the Purpura, and adhered to the edge of the glass. Sending it to Dub- 

 lin at last killed it. I may here observe that all the species of the new 

 genus Phellia — allied to Adamsia — are as yet unknown to Ireland. 



Anthea cereus. {Ellis.) 



Has occurred to me all along the coast from Portrush, county of An- 

 trim, to Galway Bay. It appears to have two rather distinct habitats — 

 one, the rock-pools which occur on our shores ; and the other, adhering 

 to beds of Zostera marina ; Himanthelia lorea, or even in some cases to the 

 different species of Laminaria. One corner of Crookhaven Bay was com- 

 pletely choked up with enormous masses of H. lorea, and every frond had 

 dozens of A, cereus, mostly of the variety with rosy-tipped, greenish ten- 

 tacles, as in Fig. 2, Plate V., of the " Actin. Brit." I have also observed 

 this peculiarity in specimens in confinement : some never resting from 

 their wanderings until they anchor themselves to the green ulva growing 

 in the aquarium. I have witnessed the process of spontaneous division in 

 this species; but this is now such a well-established fact as to be 

 hardly worth recording. 



Actinia meseinbryanihemum. {Ellis.) 



Occurs commonly all around the coast. I am inclined to think that 

 some of the well-marked varieties may be restricted to certain provinces. 

 Thus, the strawberry Anemone is rather a southern form ; in some parts 

 of the county of Cork the dark-green variety is even commoner than the 

 liver-brown one, which latter may be regarded as the typical colour. I 

 have little hesitation, from the description given, in placing A. mar- 

 garitifera of Templeton as a variety, though I have never seen a speci- 

 men. Its localities, as given by Thompson, are the Copeland Islands, 



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