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way, Clare, and Blacksod Bays, the Isles of Arran, Clare, Achill, and 

 Mullet, and parts of the counties of Clare, Galway, and Mayo. 



7th Province, North- West. — From Erris Head to Horn Head, embrac- 

 ing Killala, Sligo, and Donegal Bays, and parts of the counties Mayo, 

 Sligo, and Donegal. 



These seven Provinces might be easily subdivided, but I think this 

 is not advisable ; indeed, I am rather doubtful of the propriety of keep- 

 ing either the 2nd or 5th Province : but still we find species peculiar to 

 each of these localities, or at least occurring in them, and not generally 

 found in the others : thus, Echinus lividus occurs in Province 5, but 

 hardly if at all in Province 4. I need hardly justify the utility of making 

 these Provinces; their convenience, when referring to geographical dis- 

 tribution, is obvious, as by saying in which of these Provinces an animal 

 occurs, we at once arrive at an idea of its distribution in a much shorter 

 manner than enumerating the counties it occurs in. I have hesitated to 

 call the Provinces, Boreal, Lusitanian, &c, thinking the time has not yet 

 arrived for so doing. The Dredging Committees on the east, north, and 

 south-west of Ireland, will doubtless in time enable this to be done. I 

 have only to hope this enumeration may be adopted, as it will render 

 comparison so very easy. 



CCELENTEBATA. 



ACTINOZOA. 

 ZOANTHAKIA. 

 1. ACTINIAD-E. 



Actinoloba dianthus. 

 This species is rather common all round the coast. It is very nume- 

 rous in Dublin Bay in fourteen or fifteen fathoms ; and the elegant 

 variety, in which the Anemone is of a translucent white colour, is not 

 unfrequently met with. While it is only by dredging that the large 

 specimens (often 5 or 6 inches in height) are obtained ; yet it is by no 

 means confined to the Coralline Zone, and specimens can easily be had 

 at low-water mark on the rocks near Salthill, county of Dublin. In Bere- 

 haven, county of Cork, it occurs in countless thousands depending from the 

 roofs of several fine caves on the west side of Bere Island. At low 

 water I have seen them in these caves of every shade of colour, from a 

 rich salmon to a pure translucent white, and they in this habitat assume 

 such a long, pendant form, as to appear, at first sight, very different from 



