100 THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA. [cHapP. III. 
Jallaciosum, Fusus fenestratus, with abundance of 
Caryophyllia borealis, and all the ordinary deep- 
water forms of the region. 
The last station, 45a, gave us a most singular as- 
semblage of Ophiurideans. Ophioglypha lacertosa 
was in large numbers and of extraordinary size, and 
associated with it were two most conspicuous species, 
new to science; one a large species of Ophiothriz, 
coming near O. fragilis, but of much larger size; 
the disk in the larger specimens 25 mm. in diameter, 
and the span from tip to tip of the rays 275 mm. 
The colours of the disk are very vivid, purple and 
rose; and all the plates of the disk, and the dorsal 
plates of the arms, are studded with delicate spines. 
Notwithstanding its totally different aspect, I hada 
misgiving that this might yet prove only an extreme 
variety of O. fragilis. My friend Dr. LUrKen, how- 
ever, protests that it is totally distinct. On sucha 
questicn I bow to his authority, and dedicate it to 
him, doubts and all, under the name of Ophiothria 
littkent. ‘The second novelty was a fine species of 
Ophiomusiune. 
About mid-day on Saturday, the 31st of July, we 
steamed into Queenstown. Having coaled at Haul- 
bowline on Monday, the 2nd of August, we were 
moored in the Abercorn Basin, Belfast, after a 
pleasant return passage up the channel, on the 
evening of Wednesday, the 4th. 
As it was necessary that her boilers should be 
thoroughly cleared out after having been so long at 
sea, the ‘Porcupine’ did not leave Belfast till 
Wednesday, the 11th of August; when she pro- 
ceeded to Stornoway, her final port of departure. 
