282 REPORT—1843, 
Professor Edw. Forbes, who has bestowed more attention on the Acalepha 
than any British author, and successfully studied the species in a living state, 
has kindly contributed for my use on the present occasion a catalogue of the 
native species, in which those observed by him when dredging in various 
parts of the Irish coast are noted: some of these have already been published 
in the Reports of the British Association for 1839 (p. 85, Transactions of 
Sections), and Annals of Nat. Hist. vol. vii. p. 81. The recorded species of 
British and of Irish Acalepha are about the same in number ; the latter ex- 
clusively (as yet observed) are above indicated in the usual manner: those 
known as British and not as Irish, according to Professor Forbes’s catalogue, 
are the following :— 
Cydippe Flemingii, Ford. 
Rataria (Esch.) pocillum, Mont. (sp.) 
Alcinoe rotunda, Forbes § Goodsir. 
Dianza? Bairdii, Johnst. Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. vi. 
Thaumantias punctata, Forbes, Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. vii. 
” Sarnica, ” ” ” 
“Cyanza” coccinea, Davis, Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. vii. p. 234. pl.2. (Gen. Oceania. ) 
“ Geryonia” octona, Flem. Brit. Anim. (Gen. Oceania.) 
Aurelia granulata, Esch. 
» purpurea, Penn. 
Cassiopea lunulata, Penn. 
“ Eulimena” quadrangularis, /’/em. Brit. Anim. (probably a Beroe.) 
ZOOPHYTA. 
The Zoophytes of Ireland are well known. In Ellis’s British ‘ Corallines’ 
some species from the coast of Ireland are described; in the ninth volume 
of Loudon’s Magazine of Natural History a complete catalogue of the native 
Zoophytes known to Templeton appeared; in the ‘Zoological Researches’ of 
Mr. John Vaughan Thompson is a “memoir” (5th) partly upon the subject ; 
in the Annals of Natural History, vol. v. p. 249, and vol. vii. p. 481, additional 
species to the Irish Fauna are given by myself; in vols. vi. vii. and ix. of this 
work Mr. Hassall has very fully entered into the subject; in the Proceedings 
of the Royal Irish Academy for 1843*, and in a communication brought be- 
fore the present meeting}, Dr. Geo. J. Allman has given the results of his 
investigation of the freshwater species. 
The collections of Dr. J. L. Drummond and Mr. Hyndman from the north 
and north-east coast; of Mr. W. H. Harvey (communicated to me in 1834), 
Miss Ball, and Mr. R. Ball from the Dublin coast; of the two last-named 
from Youghal (co. Cork); of Mrs. Hancock from Ballysodare (co. Sligo), and 
others of less extent have added much—in addition to those of the naturalists 
who have written upon the subject—to our knowledge of the native species. 
To my kind friend Dr. Johnston I am indebted for a manuscript catalogue 
of the British Zoophytes as known to him at the present time: the nomencla- 
ture and synonyma of the following list are taken from it, as are, also, the 
data on which the concluding remarks are founded. 
* The title of this paper is “ On the Muscular System of Paludicella articulata and 
other Ascidian Zoophytes of fresh water.” 
+ See present volume. 
