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down the West coast of Scotland. Large branching colonies are common under stones 

 between tide-marks at Millport. 



68. Hyperammina vagans, Brady. 



Hyperammina vagans, Brady, 1879, etc., RRC. 1879, p. 33, pi. v. fig. 3. 

 Brady, 1881, FC. p. 260, pi. xxiv. figs. 1-9. 



2 Stations. 



Attached to shell-fragments at Stns. 10 and 26. 



Rhabdammina, Brady. 



69. Rhabdammina abyssorum, M. Sars. 



Rhabdammina abyssorum, M. Sars, 1868, LUHD. p. 218. 



Brady, 1881, FC. p. 266, pi. xxi. figs. 1-13. 



1 Station. 



One recognizable fragment only from the shore-sand at Oronsay — no doubt, washed in 

 from deep water. 



Rhizammina, M. Sars. 



70. Rhizammina algaeformis, Brady. (New to Britain.) 



Rhizammina algceformis, Brady, 1879, etc., RRC. 1879, p. 39, pi. iv. figs. 16, 17. 

 Brady, 1881, FC. p. 271, pi. xxviii. figs. 1-11. 



2 Stations. 



Single specimens from the two Stns. The species has not been previously recorded 

 from British waters, but is common in deep water off the Irish and West Scottish coasts. 



Botellina, Carpenter. 



71. Botellina labyrinthica, Brady. 



Botellina labyrinthica, Brady, 1878, etc., RRC. 1881, p. 18. 



„ „ Brady, 1881, FC. p. 279, pi. xxix. figs. 8-18. 



3 Stations. 



Fragments of this remarkable organism occur at Stns. 10 and 21. As this rare 

 species, when present, usually occurs in abundance, it is possible that the fragments may 

 have been derived from deeper water in the neighbourhood. At Stn. 20, however, the 

 specimens were very numerous and large, and justify the assumption that a colony of 

 the form occurred. 



Apart from the ' Porcupine ' record (Stn. No. 51) there are very few records of this 

 curious form ; we may mention that it occurs in enormous profusion in the ' Goldseeker ' 

 Dredging Haul 7791, two miles S. by E. off Burghead in the Moray Eirth (55 metres), 

 forming the bulk of the coarse material dredged at that Stn. It is apparently confined 

 to this single locality in the whole area of the Moray Eirth. 



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