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name could take. On the same page the unwarranted liberty is 
taken of docking another such word ; and elsewhere the Greek origin 
of Saccammina is falsified in ‘* Saccamina.”’ 
Doubtless this is a well-devised handbook, and, though limited 
by conciseness of method, both in choice of typical fossils and in 
treatment, it will be useful to students as a suggestive and trust- 
worthy guide in paleontology, especially as to the most probable 
subjects to be taken up in examinations. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Cucumaria Montagui (Fleming) and its Synonymy. 
By the Rev. Canon A. M. Norman, M.A., D.C.L., F.R.S., &. 
Cucumaria Montagui (Fleming). 
1808. Holothuria pentactes, var., Montagu, Linn. Trans. vol. ix. p. 112, 
pl. vil. fig. 4. 
1823. Holothuria Montagut, Fleming, Hist. Brit. Anim. p. 483. 
1882. Cucumaria Lefevrii, Th, Barrois, Cat. des Crust. Podoph. et 
Ecehin. & Concarneau, p. 52, pl. ii. figs. 1-8. 
1889. Semperia Drummond, Hérouard, Rec. sur les Holothuries des 
cétes de France, p. 685, pl. xxxi. D. figs. 1-10, figuree bone (nec 
Holothuria Drummondii, Thompson). 
Colour whitish, or often deep purple above and whitish below ; 
tentacles always deep purple. Length of my largest specimen (A) 
is a little over 23 inches, but the body is in an extreme state of 
contraction, and when alive probably the animal would have been 
4 to 5 inches. Specimen B is also 24 inches long, but scarcely one 
fourth the circumference of the last, being fully expanded in length. 
I now proceed to give an account of spicula of these and of a young 
specimen. 
Specimen A.—Body-spicule ovate, with indented margin, having 
four foramina, one foramen (oval) on each side and one (round) at 
each end of a central bar; a surface-nodule at each end of the bar 
itself, and ten (rarely twelve) nodules on the margin of the spicule. 
Upper small body-spicule campanulate ; height of bell greater than 
or subequal to the breadth, upper portion of bell formed of four ribs 
which arch down from the extremities of a very short central bar ; 
near the mouth of the bell the ribs divide into two branches, which, 
inclining right and left, unite with the branches coming from their 
neighbours, and, just prior to their union, each branch throws out 
downwards a little nodulous spur, so that the bell rests, as it were, 
on eight little legs. This is the description of the type; but slight 
uregularities of growth often present themselves. 
