122 PROF. OWEN ON A NEW SPECIES OF EUPLECTELLA. 



The specimen of the Enplectella Cuctimer here described, Dr. Farre Avrites, " was given, 

 together with other presents, by the King of the Seychelle Islands to Captain Etheridge, 

 R.N., in acknowledgment of some friendly services, and with an intimation that this 

 was one of the rarest products of those regions. Erom Captain Etheridge it passed into 

 the hands of Dr. Richard Payne Cotton, of Clarges Street, by whom it was recently 

 presented to me." — (A. E.) 



With regard to the fii'st-described species, Enplectella Aspergillum, Mr. Hugh Cuming 

 "WTites to me : — " The Enplectella brought home by me from the Philippines was taken 

 by a fisherman, in ten fathoms, rocky ground, off the island of Bohol, one of the southern 

 islands of the Philippine group. The fisherman was employed in catching a species of 

 cod wliich abounds in those islands, and finding, after some time, the fish did not take his 

 bait, he drew it up, when to liis surprise he found the above specimen attached to his 

 hook, near the orifice j and fearing to injure it by disentangling the hook from such a 

 fragile substance, he cut out that portion to which the hook was attached. On his arrival 

 on shore at St. Nicholas di Zebu, he made a present of it to the governor of the town. 

 On my arrival a few days after, I was introduced to the governor, who, upon knowing 

 the object of my visit to the island, presented me with it as the greatest curiosity he had 

 to offer me, as he had never seen the like before. On my showing it to the bishop of 

 that city, and the principal inhabitants, they confirmed the opinion of its rarity expressed 

 by the governor." — (H. C.) 



In conclusion, I beg to state, that although this paper is communicated to the Society 

 as from one author, it is properly the Avork of two : many of the observations were 

 originally made by Dr. Arthur Earre, which afterwards were confirmed by my own eyes ; 

 and every recorded observation of my own has been repeated by, and received the sanction 

 of my friend. In returning these acknowledgments for the considerate call which he 

 pressed upon the describer of the original species to bring the second before the notice of 

 natm-alists, and for his generous relegation of this pleasing task to me, I desire, at the 

 same time, to offer my best thanks to Mr. Cuming, who, with his own hands, transported 

 his fraU and imique specimen of Enplectella Aspergillum to the residence of Dr. A. Earre, 

 in order to afford every facility of comparing the two species : and I have again to express, 

 as at the close of my former memou', my obligations to Mr. G. B. Sowerby, for his 

 zealous devotion of much time and peculiar artistic skill to a faithful representation of 

 this second species of the rare genus Enplectella. 



