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286 REPORT—1843. 
British species having been found upon our coast: two of these eight— Gor- 
gonia placomus, noted as from Cornwall (Ellis), and Isis hippuris, from the 
east of Scotland and Orkney—are considered by some authors as doubtful 
British species. The others are Pennatula phosphorea, for which the only 
localities particularized in Johnston’s British Zoophytes are on the eastern 
coast of Seotland* ; Gorgonia verrucosa from Cornwall, Devon, “ Seotland;” 
Gorgonia lepadifera from Shetland and Aberdeenshire. 
There are twenty British species of Zoophyta Helianthoida, including Cap- 
nea sanguinea, discovered in the Irish Sea near the Isle of Man by Professor 
Edw. Forbes. Nine of these have not been noticed on the Irish coast, and 
on the British, one only of the number has been found in more than a single 
locality, viz. Lucernaria campanulata, obtained at Torbay and Berwick. The 
others are the Capnea already mentioned; Turbinolia borealis and Actinia 
intestinalis from Zetland; Anthea Tuedia and Aetinia sazxatilis from Ber- 
wick ; Act. biserialis from Guernsey ; I/wanthus Seotieus from Loch Ryan. 
The Actinia margaritifera and Act. coccinea found on the coast of Ireland, 
are unknown to the British catalogue. 
The British species of Zoop. Ascidioida may be reckoned ninety-three in 
number, after several species described as distinct have been made synony- 
mous with others previously known; of these, twenty-eight have not yet 
been recorded as Irish:—several are yet unpublished as British. On the 
other hand, eight known as Irish have not a place in the catalogue of Great 
Britain ; three are Lepralie described by Mr. Hassall; the Pedicellina echi- 
nata of Sars; Plumatella emarginata, Plum. fruticosa and Fredericella dila- 
tata of Allman; Paludicella articulata of Gervaist. Of the Irish desiderata 
seventeen species are each from a single British locality—Beania mirabilis 
and Flustra Murrayana from Scarborough; Yubulipora penicillata, T. de- 
flexa, T. trahens and T. hyalina§ (described by Mr. Conch), from Cornwall, 
which is the only locality for Retepora reticulata. Tubulipora truneata, 
Cellepora levis, and Flustra setacea have been obtained at Zetland. Pal- 
las’s habitat for Notamia bursa—“ mare Anglicum”—should probably be 
more strictly a limited locality. Lepralia trespinosa is from Berwickshire ; 
Cellularia Hookeri from Torquay; Eschara fascialis, Isle of Wight; Lepra- 
lia reticulata, Aberdeen. The remaining species respecting which localities 
have been published, are Cellepora Skenei, east coast of Great Britain, &c., 
from Northumberland to Zetland, and lately dredged off the Mull of Gal- 
loway by Capt. Beechey, R.N.; Fetepora cellulosa, Shetland,Fulah and Scar- 
borough; Eschara foliacea, Sussex and the south coast of England. 
AMORPHOZOA. 
A catalogue of the Irish Sponges known to Templeton was published in 
the ninth volume of Loudon’s Magazine of Natural History, and a few 
* A specimen once brought to me from Belfast market was stated to have been 
found among haddock sent from Glasgow, and most probably captured on the west 
coast of Scotland. 
+ Included in this number are two of Delle Chiaje’s species from Sana island, on 
the Scottish coast, noticed by myself in the Annals of Nat. Hist. (vol. x. p. 20), and 
the seven last-named species of Mr. Hassall in the preceding catalogue, all of which 
require to be further studied with the view to ascertain whether they be really new 
or only synonymous with species previously described—indeed, the Berenicee, Celle- 
_pore and Lepralie require a thorough revision, 
t A highly interesting paper on the anatomy of the species, by Dr. Geo. J. Allman, 
has been published in the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy for 1843. 
§ I have not seen the descriptions of these species of Z'ubulipora. 
