4 LIVERPOOL MARINE BIOLOGY COMMITTEE REPORT. 



Crustacea. — Caprella linearis, Pagurus bernhardus, 

 Porcellana longicornis, and P. platycheles, Hyas 

 araneus, Portumts depurator, and Stenorhynchus 

 rostratus, 

 MoLLUSCA. — PJiolas Candida, Ancula cristata, Tritonia 

 pleheia, Doto coronata. 

 In the tow nets, Pleurobrachia, Medusoid Gonophores 

 (chiefly species of Thaumantias), and Copepoda were taken 

 in great abundance. The specimens collected were all 

 brought to the Zoological Laboratory of University College, 

 and were there roughly arranged in groups, preserved in 

 alcohol or picric acid solution, labelled, and stored away. 



The most important result of this expedition was, 

 undoubtedly, the discovery of Garveia nutans. This rare 

 Zoophyte * had not been previously found in this neighbour- 

 hood, although the investigations of the Liverpool Marine 

 Biology Committee have shown that it is widely distributed 

 over the area, and, apparently, is fairly abundant in the 

 neighbourhood of Hilbre Island. 



About the middle of May, a letter was received from 

 Mr. N. RuNDELL, Jun., offering, on behalf of the Liverpool 

 Salvage Association, to allow the Marine Biology Committee 

 to have the use of the S.S. " Hyaena " for a three days' cruise 

 along the coast of North Wales. This afforded a welcome 

 opportunity for investigating one of the more outlying parts 

 of the district which could not be overtaken in a single day's 

 expedition ; so it was decided that the region in the neigh- 

 bourhood of the Great Ormes Head, Puffin Island, and the 

 entrance to the Menai Straits, should be specially explored. 

 About twenty naturalists took part in the expedition, which 

 occupied three complete days, the 23rd, 24th, and 25th of 

 May. Between thirty and forty hauls of the dredge and trawl 

 * See Report upon the Hydroida, p. 99. 



