112 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



Ophiuroids or Brittle Stars are usually seen wriggling in the 

 water beneath. 



Phanerozonate Asteroids were numerous, especially Asterina, 

 gunnii. Asterina calcar was rare, as was also a very small Asterina 

 which so far I have not been able to identify, whilst Pentagonaster 

 australis was occasionally met with. 



Cryptozonate Asteroids were numerous, Stichaster Polyplax 

 especially so, four-rayed varieties being not uncommon, whilst 

 Asterias calamaria was well represented. 



Ophiuroids were frequently met with, and much difficulty is 

 experienced in obtaining these long-rayed animals intact, as they 

 drop off their rays at the least interference. They were 

 represented by two species of the order Zygophiurae and family 

 Ophiocomidgs. 



Echinoids were also fairly plentiful under rocks, and comprised 

 two species of the sub-class Regularia Ectobranchiata. 



Holothurians were fairly numerous ; some of the specimens 

 obtained, of a creamy colour, measured 5 inches long by about 

 I inch diameter. Three species were obtained, belonging to 

 the order of Actinopoda, family Cucumariidse. 



Crinoids were not represented. — A. Mattinglev. 



FoRAMiNiFERA (Recent). — However rich this locality may be 

 for shells of the Mollusca, the same can scarcely be said of the 

 Foraminifera, so far as we have had an opportunity of judging. 

 One or two samples of tide-marks were taken, and the contents 

 worked over. Although the species are not numerous (17 in all), 

 they present certain points of interest. 



The tests of Discorbinse are by far the most numerous, and 

 they are represented by four species. There is also a new variety 

 of Clavulina parisiensis . The specimen of Reophax is very 

 flexible, and the test is composed of chips of Echinus spines, 

 coralline joints, sand grains, and smaller tests of its own 

 ilk. 



The foraminiferal shells are in some instances naturally coloured 

 by the contained sarcode ; for example, Pidvinuli7ia repanda, 

 which is of a lemon-yellow colour, and the various species of 

 Discorbina, which have the greater part of their tests, and more 

 especially the initial series of segments, stained of a beautiful 

 brown-pink. 



The following may be regarded as a preliminary list from this 

 locality : — Biloculina depressa, d'Orbigny ; Spirolocuhna nitida, 

 d'Orb. ; Miliolina ferussacii, d'Orb., sp. ; M. trigonula, Lam., sp. ; 

 M. subrotunda, Montagu, sp. ; M. circularis. Born., sp. ; 

 M. undosa, Karrer, sp. ; Reophax scorpiurus, Montfort ; 

 Clavulina parisiensis, d'Orb. (new var.) ; Planorbulina mediter- 

 ranensis, d'Orb., sp. ; Discorbina rosacea, d'Orb., sp. ; D. 

 globularis, d'Orb., sp. ; D. rugosa, d'Orb., sp . ; D. vesicularis. 



