FAUNA OF THE OUTER WESTERN AREA OF THE CHANNEL. 303 



The species lias been recorded from the Liverpool district by 

 Hanitsch (16, p. 233). An earlier British record by Carter is ques- 

 tioned by Minchin (28, p. 18), who also leaves localities given by 

 Bowerbank (Channel Islands, Scarborough ?) open to doubt, owing 

 to a confusion of species in his material. The natural habitat of 

 C. contorta is in the more southern waters : Sark, Luc-sur-mer (Top- 

 sent, 35) ; Koscoff (Topsent, 37 ; Minchin, 28) ; Belle Isle (Topsent, 36) ; 

 Banyuls-sur-mer, extremely al)undant (Minchin, 28) ; Azores, abundant 

 (Topsent, 38) ; Adriatic (Lendenfeld, 22, pars. (?)— cf. Minchin 28, 

 p. 14). It is apparently one of those species that extend with difficulty 

 within the border line of the British Fauna. 



LEUCOSOLEXIIDAE, Minchin. 

 Leucosolenia complicata (Montagu). 



Eecorded from 24 positions— 1, 3, 4, 11-15, 31-37, 40, 43, 45, 49, 

 51, 52, 58, 59, 64. 



Depth, 40-53 fath. 



Mostly on Hydroids, Cdlaria and Cellepora, also on shells of Pedcn 

 and tubes of Pallasia and on Inachus. At some positions several 

 specimens were obtained, at twelve positions a single one only. 



The habit of growth, which varies little among all the specimens 

 obtained, is very different from that of the ordinary shore form. This 

 is a straofcrling growth, often a confused tangle of slender rambling 

 tubes, in no case exceeding 1 mm. in diameter, usually considerably 

 less, and with no tendency to specialization. Many of the specimens 

 are extremely small. Of the larger ones two especially deserve men- 

 tion : the first from Position 32, a thickly grown specimen with 

 rambling tubes of less than 1 mm. in diameter, on GdUpora, measuring 

 about 35 mm. in extent ; the second from Position 37, a very fine 

 specimen of 50 mm. in breadth and 60 mm. in height, forming a 

 tangled shrub-like growth on a shell of Pedcn opcrcularis. 



SYCETTIDAE, Dendy (13). 

 SycoR ciliatum (Fabricius). 



At Positions 38 (five), 40 (one). 



Depth, 44 fath. 



I make use of the name ciliatum provisionally for the specimens 

 here recorded, on grounds of priority, because after examination of 

 many specimens I am quite unable to separate this form from 

 Haeckei's Sycandra coronatcc as defined by him. In the main they 

 conform more to the latter type than to cilicdum in point of the 



