CORYNE VAN-BENEDENII, Hincks (Plate I., figs. 4, a, b, c and d. 



Syncorynapiisilla, Van Beneden, Rech. sur les Tubul., 52, pi. iii., 

 figs. 1-10. 



Coryne pusilla, Johnston, B.Z., 41, pi. iv., figs. 1, 2. 



Locality. — Dredged " Raider No. 2," July, 1911 ; and growing 

 on Cellepom avicularis, in 40 fathoms east of Coquet Island. 



Geographical Distribution. — " I am unable to give any 

 British habitat. Dr. Johnston . . . .has a figure of it, which 

 was taken from British examples, and he states that it is often 

 parasitical on Tubidaria indivisa " (Hincks' B.H.Z.). 



Ostend (Van Beneden). Liverpool (L.M.B.A., 1896, p. 430). 



The specimens observed (in spirit) were poor, but the follow- 

 ing characteristics were noted : — 



A transparent wavy stolon, from which the polypite arises, with 

 a very delicate cup at the base. Polypite rather long, with twenty 

 or more short clavate tentacles. Gonophores round the base of 

 the polypite 2-6 in number, on a short stalk, very large (plate i., fig. 

 4c). 



CLADONEMA— sp. (Plate 2). 



Cf. Cladonema radiatum (free zooid), Dujardin. Ann. des Sc. 

 Nat. xx. (1843), 370 ; Ann. des Sc. Nat. (3rd ser.), Zool., iv., 271. 



Cladonema radiatum, Hincks. Brit. Hy. Zooph. pi. xi. 



Coryne slauridia, Gosse, Dev. Coast, 257, pi. xvi., figs. 1-5. 



Locality. — In one of the laboratory tanks, May, 1913. 



Geographical Distribution. — Devonshire ; in the tanks in 

 the Zoological Gardens, and in Mr. Holdsworth's aquarium. St. 

 Malo ; Messina ; Belgium. 



Polypite. — Not observed. 



Gonozooid. — Umbrella deep bell-shaped, with many thread 

 cells ; manubrium long, with four of five oral lobes covered with 

 thread cells ; marginal tentacles 16, springing from orange bulbs, 

 simple, very extensile, roughened by conspicuous groups of thread 

 cells, and each furnished with a suctorial appendage ; radial 

 canals, 4. 



