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were brought up by the divers, and have been sent to my 

 friend Professor Jeffrey Bell for identification. Of recorded 

 species those which were brought on shore most frequently 

 were the crimson-lake coloured Oreader Uncki, and the long- 

 armed, usually salmon-coloured Lhickia Icevigata^ and, not 

 unfrequently, dense clusters of Ardedon palmata were found 

 in crevices hollowed out in coral blocks, from which also, 

 when broken open, specimens of Ophiuroich (commonly met 

 with their arms turned round the branches of a GorgoniOy 

 or in the canal system of sponges), Annelids, Crustaceans^ 

 and stone-boring Mollusca [Lit/iodomus, Paropholas^ Vene- 

 rupis, &c.) were obtained. 



