REPOKT on I'HK PKNNATULIDA. 



temperature was vei'y low, Sl'o" F. ; and the bottom stony 

 instead of as in other k)caHties mud. An additional point of 

 interest lies in the fact that while all other recorded localities are 

 either in land-locked channels, or else close to the mainland, this 

 is in the open ocean. 



1880. — KoUiker : "Report on the Pennatulida dredj^ed by H.M.S. 

 ' Challenger ' : Zoology of ' Challenger ' Expedition," Part II., p. HI. 

 Gives a new classification of the Pennatulida, in which the 

 zoological position and affinities of Fttnicitlina are determined. 

 No speciniens of FiDiintliiia were obtained by the "Challenger " 

 during the whole of her three years' cruise ; but two new allied 

 genera were discovered, of which one genus, StacJii/ptilum, is 

 represented by a single specimen from the west coast of New 

 Guinea ; while of the other genus, Anthoptilum, three species were 

 discovered, two in the South Atlantic Ocean, one of them near 

 Buenos Ayres, and the other near the oceanic Islands of Tristan 

 d'Acunha, and the third in the North Atlantic, near Halifax, 

 in Nova Scotia. 



Geogkaphical Distribution. 



FunicuHna has a very limited distribution indeed ; the only locali- 

 ties recorded hitherto being the following : — 



A. — Mediterranean : 



1. Naples, where it was first discovered in 1757. 



2. Adriatic Sea. The canal of Novi in Dalmatia is mentioned by 

 KoUiker as a locality from which the natural history dealer, Fric, of 

 Prague, obtained sevei'al specimens, the largest measuring 50 ins. long. 



B. — Scotland : 



3. Oban, off the Island of Keri'era. First discovered by MacAndrew 

 in 1844. Largest recorded specimen mentioned by Forbes as 48ins. long. 



4. Raasay Sound. Discovered by Thomson during dredging cruise 

 of " Porcupine," 1869. Loch Torridon, near Kaasay Sound, is men- 

 tioned as the locality whence the specimen, 53 ins. long, in the New- 

 castle Museum ( vide infra) was obtained. 



5. A spot in the North Atlantic in lat. 5\)° 56' N., and long, 

 go 27' "W. ; station 54 of the third cruise of the " Porcupine," 186'J, 

 under Sir W. Thomson. 



6. Hebrides. Mentioned, without further particulars, by KoUiker as 

 locality whence MacAndrew obtained specimens. 



C. — Scandinavian Shorea : 



7. Bohusliin, in the Kattegat. Specimen 53 ins. long. 



8. Eisvaeg, in the Fiord of Bergen. 



1). Glaesvae, in the Fiord of Bergen. The largest recorded speci- 

 men, a dead stem upwards of 7 ft. long, was obtained from here. 



10. Danish Coast. Mentioned without further particulars by 

 KoUiker as a locality. 



Not only is the geographical distribution of FunicuHna a very 

 limited one, but wherever it does occur it seems to be confined to a 

 very small spot, ni which it occurs fairly abundantly ; as we infer from 



