of South Devon and South Cornwall. 159 



the latter species, which are cylindrical, of great length, and 

 furnished with very numerous tentacles. 



Exmouth, on Fucus. [Mount's Bay, on the same.] 



3. C. Cerberus, Gosse, Devonshire Coast, 222, pi. 14. fig. 4, &c. 



Torquay. This minute species was found by Mr. Gosse in 

 a glass jar containing Actinise, &c, brought from Torquay. 

 Judging from the character and disposition of the tentacles, it 

 should probably be referred to the genus Stauridia. 



Family Tubulariad.se. 



1. Eudendrium, Ehrenberg. 



1. E. ramosum, Linn. 



Torbay and Salcombe, dredged on other zoophytes ; amongst 

 the refuse of the Plymouth trawlers, sparingly. 



2. E. capillare, Alder, Northumb. and Durham Catal. 15, pi, 1. 



figs. 9-12. 



Torbay, dredged on Sertularia argentea. Mr. Alder has also 

 obtained it from Plymouth. 



3. E. insigne, n. sp. 



Polypary minute, slender, closely ringed throughout, giving off 

 occasionally a short branch also annulated. Polype very large 

 and tall; body somewhat vase-shaped, very opake, reddish; 

 tentacles about 20. Gonophores produced towards the base 

 of the body, globose, on short stalks, of an orange-colour. 

 Height about a quarter of an inch. 



Hope's Nose, Torquay, on rocks between tide-marks, rooted 

 in a mass of sponge. 



I know of no species to which the above form can be referred, 

 and have therefore ventured to describe it as new, though it has 

 only occurred to me once. The characters are sufficiently di- 

 stinctive. The stem is regularly annulated, like that of a Corxjne, 

 throughout its entire length. The branching is of the simplest 

 kind. The polypes are remarkable for their size and splendour, 

 being much larger and more striking than those of E. ramosum. 

 The body is of a pretty shape, and very opake. There seems to 

 be a membranous extension of the polypary, forming a shallow 

 cup round the base of the polypes. 



In one of the specimens I noticed two orange gonophores, 

 placed as described above. In this case the polype itself had 

 almost disappeared. The diminutive size and the littoral habitat 

 are also distinctive points. 



