280 REPORT—1843. 
Distribution, 
Slale\s 
6 a | oO 3S 
Order Crrrui-VERMIGRADA.—Holothuriade. a BF | B 
Thyone papillosa, Mull. (Sp.)....ssseeeserseceeees eepeceneceese Sc. ee covesweel x lene] 
»  Portlockii, Forbes (I.) .....0. Rede ais JWeedecsncocsur con cto woxeas ree 
Chirodota digitata, Mont. (sp.)?......ccccscaccsccccesscvcecsscocccssssovcccevceses| ip 
Order VermicRADA.—Sipunculide. 
Syrinx papillosus, Thomp. (sp.) ese...+-- Pobsssnatidte ececdsesevessccseostscescoenes melees| ap 
Sipunculus Bernhardus, Forbes ...-..sssesecsecseeeees bestauecmene ewes sponesEense il well op 
ae Pallasii, Thomp. MSS. (1.) ...s.seceseeees Rtesesenectaecnsecats acest 
Priapulus caudatus, Lam. ......scccccecsssssssceceere ouseers Heioso ne re * 
Thalassema Neptuni, Gerin. (sp.)....-. epaaas saateecuceeaet RN ee * 
In the arrangement and nomenclature of the preceding catalogue, the 
excellent work of Professor E. Forbes on the British Echinodermata is im- 
plicitly followed. The fullness with which the subject is treated in that 
work—to which al] the information on the Irish species was contributed*,— 
renders a few words only desirable here on the distribution of the species 
as yet unknown to our Fauna. 
Of the twenty-nine + species of British ‘“ Starfishes ”"— Crinoidee, Ophiu- 
vide and Asteriade—all but five are recorded as Irish. These are Oph. 
punctata and Oph. Goodsiri, both of which were first described in Forbes’s 
Brit. Echin.; the former has been taken only at Anstruther in Fifeshire ; the 
latter there and at Shetland. Astrophyton scutatum and Goniaster equestris 
are both very rare, but have occurred at a few localities from north to south 
of Great Britain. Of Goniaster Abbensis (Forbes, Annals Nat. Hist. vol. xi. 
April 1843,) but a single individual has yet been met with, and as its name 
indicates, at St. Abb’s Head. 
Of the eleven species of British Hchinide, four are unknown to Ireland, 
but, one species— E. lividus—found on the western and southern coasts of 
the latter island, and unknown as British, makes our number eight. Of the 
desiderata, two—Cidaris papillata and Echinarachnius placenta—are ex- 
tremely rare, and have been taken only in Shetland ; Hehinus neglectus there 
and in Orkney. Brissus lyrifer (first described in Forbes’s Hist. Brit. Echin.) 
has been obtained only in the estuary of the Clyde. 
Of the twelve British species of Holothuriade, eight are known as Irish, and 
three— Cue. Drummondii, Cue. Hyndmaniand Thyone Portlockii—discovered 
on the coast of the latter country and unknown as British, make the Irish spe- 
cies eleven in number. Of our desiderata, two species—Cucumaria hyalina 
and Cue. fucicola—are known only to Shetland ; Psolinus brevis to the same 
locality and the Kyles of Bute; Cucumaria frondosa to the same and the 
coast of Fife. 
Of the eight species of British Sipunculide four are known as Irish, in ad- 
dition to which is the Sipun. Pallasii, that cannot be announced with cer- 
tainty as British. Our desiderata are so rare that they have each been ob- 
tained in a single locality only on the British coast, namely, Syrina nudus 
(with certainty) and Syr. Harveii at Teignmouth in Devonshire ; Sipunculus 
Johnstoni at Berwick-upon-Tweed ; Echiurus vulgaris at St. Andrews. 
* Four species have since been added. 
+ The original descriptions of two species—Oph. Ballit and Goniaster Templetoni— 
were drawn up from Irish specimens, and the first Cribella rosea noticed in the British 
seas was obtained off the south of Ireland. 
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