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Ttibularia indivisa has been unusually abundant, and several colonies 

 with polyps of exceptional size for this locality were taken near the 

 Asia Eock, during the latter half of March. This species was also 

 growing in profusion on the rocks below West Hoe Terrace about the 

 same time. Tuhularia indivisa, of a more luxurious growth and redder 

 colour than that found in the Sound, was taken on May 8th from 

 beneath the overhanging shelf of rock below the remains of the old 

 lighthouse at the Eddystone. It was growing there in considerable 

 quantity, side by side with a species of Aglaophenia, which will be 

 described by Prof. Nutting, 



Tuhularia larynx, which appears to have been common in the Sound 

 in former years, has not been so during the present season. 



Garvcia nvtans, which has been regarded as a rare form at Plymouth, 

 has been plentiful this spring. It was continually found on the stones 

 dredged in Millbay channel, and on April 8th numerous colonies, 

 covered with gonophores, were growing on the rocks under West Hoe. 

 This species has not, I believe, been previously found at Plymouth 

 between tide marks. 



A small species of Eudcndrium, of very delicate habit, and at once 

 recognisable by the milk-white colour of its polyps, which Prof. 

 Allman is inclined to regard not as Uudendrium ca2nllare, which it 

 resembles in some points, but as a new species, was found in large 

 quantities on stones taken from Millbay channel, and bore gonophores 

 during April. 



On the 25th and 2Gth of April, a species of Syncoryne, resembling 

 Syncoryne mirabilis of Agassiz, bearing meduste of two kinds, was found 

 by Mr. Garstang at Devil's l*oint and Garden Battery. This species 

 will be described by Mr. Garstang in detail. 



On May 9th another species of Syncoryne, resembling Syncoryne 

 eximia, but of rather more delicate habit, with the tentacles already 

 formed on the zooids, was found growing on the roots of Laminaria on 

 a buoy moored near the Eddystone. 



The interesting hydroid Corymorpha nutans has again been obtained. 

 The last recorded instances of its capture at I'lymouth is by Mr. 

 Heape,* on May 17th, 1887, in about three fathoms, below Fort 

 Tregantle, in Whitsand Bay. On May 20th of the present year, we 

 succeeded in obtaining three specimens with the dredge, olf the same 

 fort, in about nine fathoms, and one mile from shore. One of the 

 specimens had medusiX! attached. On the following day. May 18th, 

 our fisherman, Poach, tried with the dredge a patch of sand at the east 

 end of the Breakwater, and succeeded in taking two specimens. From 

 the abundance in which the medusii; of this species occur here during 



* This Journal. Vol. i. N.S. p. 394. 

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