78 DISCOVERY REPORTS 



The genus was described in 191 1 (R. 191 1, etc., FPE, 191 1, p. 227) under the name 

 Hospitella, subsequently amended to Hospitellwn (R. 191 1, etc., FPE, 1913, p. 468). 

 Such corrections in generic names are not admissible and the original name must stand. 

 Wiesner gives the size of his colony as 0-3 mm., but does not mention the size of the 

 individual chambers. The Discovery specimen is rather more than 0-30 mm. in dia- 

 meter of the colony, the individual chambers vary in size up to o-o6 mm. in diameter. 



Genus Botellina, Carpenter, 1869 

 132. Botellina goesii, sp.n. (F 81 a) (Plate II, figs. 23-26). 



Botellina labyrinthica. Goes {non Brady), 1894, ASF, p. 19, pi. iv, figs. 69-86. 



Botellina labyrinthica, J. Wright (wow Brady), 1902, FRI, pp. 211-12. 



Botellina labyrinthica, Heron-Allen and Earland (wow Brady), 1916, FWS, p. 221. 



Botellina labyrinthica, Cushman (wow Brady), 1918, etc., FAO, 1920, p. 89. 



Botellina labyrinthica, Heron-Allen and Earland, 1932, Discovery Reports, vol. iv, p. 336, 



No. 81 A. 



One station: 363. 



The organism recorded by us in the Falklands report {ut supra) under the name of 

 B. labyrinthica, Brady, was found in some numbers at St. 363, off Zavodovski Island in 

 the South Sandwich group, at a depth of 329 m. The specimens are similar to those 

 found at St. 388 off Cape Horn, but are in better condition. They are identical with the 

 organism which is figured and recorded under the same name by Goes, from 35 m. off 

 the Swedish coast, and by J. Wright and Heron- Allen and Earland from various localities 

 in Ireland and Scotland. 



Cushman in 1920 has already observed that the figures of Goes are not Brady's 

 species, or at least do not show the full characters. Goes himself refers to the points of 

 difference; his description (translated) is: "Tube-shaped, aperture a simple irregular 

 opening or exhibiting some irregular pores; the interior irregularly cancellate with 

 ridges and sand grains ; the primordial end slightly inflated, nearly smooth internally, 

 with a thin wall (sometimes perforated) ; built of coarse sand, often irregular, slovenly, 

 like a worm tube. My form differs from the type in its smaller size, and the less com- 

 pletely constructed cancellate interior. Colour grey or rusty. Length 10-15 mm." 



Goes' description seems adequate, but I think the perforations in the primordial end 

 to which he refers in his text and figures must have been adventitious. I have never 

 seen openings in the bulb, unless in obviously broken specimens. 



The type of Goes is so different in size and elaboration of structure from the re- 

 latively enormous organism described by Brady, that it is somewhat remarkable that 

 nobody has yet given it a distinctive name. I propose to call it after its first recorder, 

 Dr Axel Goes. 



Brady's type of B. labyrinthica is known only from deep water in the cold area of the 

 Faroe Channel, whereas B. goesii evidently has a very wide distribution in much shal- 

 lower water. Wright dredged it in abundance midway between Belfast Lough and 

 Portpatrick in 100 fathoms, and I have found it equally common in one of my Gold- 

 seeker dredgings in the Moray Firth, at 55 m. 



