STRETHILL WRIGHT, ON BRITISH ZOOPHYTES. AQ 
angle from the stem, crooked, wrinkled, but not ringed. 
Polyp with eight alternate tentacles, buccal cavity 
silvery, endodermal lining of stomach bright red-lead 
coloured. Reproduction not observed. 
This zoophyte was found on stones at Largo, in little 
gnarled, shrubby trees, about an inch high, exposed at the 
lowest tides. The bright-yellow colour of the polypary at 
once strikes the eye, which is also arrested by the gaudy 
colour of the minute polyps. These appear to be marked by 
two broad internal patches; one, corresponding to the buccal 
cavity, of a dense silvery white; the other to the cavity of 
the stomach, of a brilliant reddish orange. I have also found 
very minute specimens of this species at Granton. 
4, Laomedea decipiens, T.S.W. (New species.) Commu- 
nicated to the Roy. Phys. Soc., February 26th, 1862. 
Polypary minute; stem filiform flexuose, with from one 
to five branches, each bearing a cell; the stem is an- 
nulated with about five rings above the origin of each 
branch ; the branches are annulated throughout ; cells 
widening rapidly towards the top, with even, double 
rims. Polyp with about sixteen tentacles and trum- 
pet-shaped proboscis. 
This pretty little Laomedea resembles much the Laomedea 
neglecta of Alder, except that the margin of the cell is even, 
and has the appearance of being double for about half its 
length from the rim, though, from the extreme delicacy of 
the cell, this character is only made out with difficulty. The 
reproduction of this zoophyte resembles exactly that I have 
described in Laomedea lacerata,* except that each gelatinous 
nest of A. decipiens contains only three ova, while that of 
L. lacerata contains six or eight. 
5. Clava nodosa, T.S. W. (New species.) Communicated to 
the Roy. Phys. Soc., March 26th, 1862. 
“ Polypary creeping. Scleroderm membranous. Polyps 
single, small, aurora-coloured, each springing from 
small knot of convoluted tubes.” 
This zoophyte was found on the fronds of Delesseria 
sanguinea at Queensferry and Largo. The very delicate 
threads of the polypary creep over the fronds of the 
seaweed, and at intervals twine themselves into a convo- 
Inted knot of membranous tubes, from which a single 
polyp arises. This species occurs only at low-tide mark, 
* «Edin. New Phil. Mag.,’ N. S., vol. ix. 
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