BARBADOS-ANTIGUA EXPEDITION 163 
certain species found a refuge in the cracks of the rocks that 
were continually being scoured by the waves. On these rocky 
flats everything seemed to be stuck tight and had to be forcibly 
pried loose. There were small holothurians that wedged them- 
selves in these cracks and held on with remarkable tenacity. 
A great number of worms, mostly of the tube-dwelling kind, 
were found in the rocks at Barclay Point, while the sea seor- 
pions were apt to lurk under the stones and sting the hands of 
the incautious collector. Of course there were crabs innumer- 
able, and many shrimp-hke macrurans. Anemones, too, were 
plentiful and of different species from those collected at Bar- 
bados. Some of them were of the social kind and encrusted 
the rocks in places. 
Almost innumerable mollusks were found attached to these 
rocks, and Henderson made several interesting finds. A fine 
study of individual variation and variations at different heights 
from the water could be made here and was made to a certain 
extent. Some specimens of chitons new to us, including a small 
red form, were also found. Here, too, we encountered the ‘‘sea 
punch,’’ which is a worm-tube, hard as flint, cemented to the 
rock, with a perfectly round aperture pointing upward. One 
of these punched a neat round hole in the horny sole of Albert’s 
foot as clean as a conductor could ‘‘punch with ecare’’ a pas- 
senger’s ticket. We thus had a demonstration of the exceeding 
appropriateness of the name ‘‘sea punch,’’ although Albert 
limped around for several days as a result. Here also we found 
a number of brown petalostichans that were buried several 
inches in the sand under the rocks, and a remarkable holo- 
thurian (Hupata), quite transparent and with encircling rings 
of curious round nodules that disappeared when the animal 
was fully extended. On the seaward side of Rocky Point sev- 
eral species of corals were found, and Millepora which grew in 
a peculiar reticulate pattern where the surf swept heavily over 
the flat rocks near the foot of the Pillars of Hercules. 
Across from Rocky Point is Barclay Point, on the outer side 
of which the surf beats heavily, although there is comparative 
quiet on the side facing the Dockyard. The point is high and 
the rocks precipitous, while below are masses of black rocks be- 
tween which are some good tide-pools where we collected many 
