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followed upon an exceedingly severe winter, the effects of 

 which could scarcely fail to thin the numbers of certain groups ; 

 and secondly, that though we explored a portion of the district 

 very carefully, a number of localities were either not examined, 

 or insufficiently searched. 



Beyond the quay opposite our laboratory, a sandy spit is 

 exposed at low tides. In the immediate neighbourhood of 

 the quay and on this spit, Clava squamata occurred, the ova 

 of which, at first pinkish in colour, become purple or bright 

 blue when mature. Coryjie vaginata (with gonophores) was 

 found here, and generally from this point westward to the 

 light-house at the harbour-mouth. Eolis papulosa was breed- 

 ing on the spit itself, and w^as accompanied by Elysia viridis; 

 the Turbellaria, Leptopla^ia tremellaris, Fecampia crythro- 

 cephala, Flagiostoma Girardi] the Nemertea, Linens obscurus, 

 L. longissimus, Amphiportis lactifloreus^ Carinella annulata ; 

 and lastly, Dinophihis tceniatus. 



Westwards from the spit lies a long strip of collecting 

 ground in the direction of Glanleam, terminating for practical 

 purposes just beyond some pools, in which the purple burrow- 

 ing sea-urchin {Strongyloce7itrotus lividus) occurs in numbers. 

 At low spring tides, Zostera:-h^^^ are here uncovered, and 

 on these and under the loose boulders the following fauna was 

 obtained : — Acthiia equina, A7iemo7iia cereus, Actinoloba dian- 

 thus, Sagartia bellis, S. troglodytes, S. venusta, S. nivea, Tealia 

 crassicornis, Bunodes geynmaceus, Corynactis viridis, and Cerean- 

 thus Lloydii. The Hydroids were not abundant, and had 

 apparently suffered from the severity of the preceding winter. 

 We obtained, however, on this ground small colonies of a species 

 of Rhizogeton very similar to R. fusiformis, Agassiz, a genus 

 new to British seas, and hitherto only described from Massa- 

 chusetts Bay. A number of the commoner species of Campanu- 

 laria and Sertularia occurred here, together with Coryfie pusilla 

 and C. vaginata. In the ** lividus " pools the creeping medusa 

 Clavatella prolifera was obtained, with young budding off from 

 it. The Polyclad Turbellaria, probably abundant here in a 

 good season, were represented by Stylochoplana maculata, 

 Leptoplana tremellaris, Stylostomum variabile, and Cycloporus 

 papillosus: the Rhabdocoelida by Proxenetes flabellifer, Pro- 

 mesostoma r?iarmoratum, Macrorhynchus Ncegelii, Monotus fuscusy 



