NOTICE OF EMBLETONIA PALLIDA, OF A 



NEW HYDROZOON, AND A NEW 



INFUSORIUM. 



r.Y W. A. SAN FORD, ESQ., F.G.S. 



EiiBLETONiA HY^ixiXA, f AWef aud Hancock J, maculis purpu- 

 rescentibus, lobis cajntis velo iiuitis, tentaculis longis, api^roxi- 

 mantibus, braiicbiis quatriserialibus, elipticis, fiavis, apicibus 

 albis. 



Habitat — on Laoäomea gelatimsa, at lo-n'-water marlc at St. 

 Audries, on tbe Bristol Clianuel, — W. A. S., 1860. On th.e 

 Site of tbe docks, Birkenbead, — Mr. Price, 1854. (Extinct in 

 tbe latter locaHty.) 



AT St. Audries, to the west of the roacl which Sir P. 

 i\. Acland has made from the farm liouse to the 

 beach, there is a ledge of lias -which runs out to the north 

 from the clifF, and forms a barrier, -which encloses at low 

 ■sA^ater a large pond of sea Avater bet-\veen it and the clifF. 

 Small streams trickle from the pond do-wn the face of the 

 ledge, -which form little deep pools, the sides of -which are 

 covered with multitudes of Zoophytes of the common shore- 

 kinds, Laodomeae, Sertularias, and two er three species of 

 Coryne. Among them a new species of Clavida (Clavula 



