oped HISTORY OF BRITISH ZOOPHYTES. 
Mr. Alder mentions that the fine specimen of Oculina 
prolifera was presented to the Newcastle Natural History 
Society by Mr. Atkinson; that it is in their Museum, and 
measures eight or ten inches across. 
Genus XXV. TURBINOLIA, Lamarck. 
Gen. Char. Animal like the Actinia, single. Polypidom sim- 
ple, inversely conical, furrowed on the outside, pointed at the 
base, and terminated above in a lamellated cup or cell_—Johnston. 
1. TURBINOLIA BOREALIS. 
Hab. Zetland, Dr. Fleming. 
“Tt is mversely conical, pointed, subarcuated, with a 
concave disc, and a prominent centre; the plates, though 
defaced, appear to have been equal. It is about five-tenths 
of an inch in height, and nearly the same in breadth across 
the star.” (Hleming.) 
2. Turprnotia Minueriana, Mr. WM‘ Andrew. 
Hab. Off Sicily; off the Irish Isles of Arran, Mr. Barlee. 
This, as represented in Dr. Johnston’s plate xxxv., fig. 1, 
2, 3, is a beautiful little coral, shaped like a boy’s top, with 
twenty-four longitudinal ribs. It is scarcely half an inch 
in height, and at the top about a quarter of an inch in 
diameter. Professor Forbes states that it is identical with 
