Zoology. 235 



Very few species have been obtained on tlie coasts of 

 Antrim and Down, probably due to the very Hniited search 

 which has been made for them on this part of the Irish 

 coast. Ahhough the N E. coast of Ireland may not be so 

 rich in these animals as the S.W. coast, yet doubtless many 

 additional species would reward a careful investigation of 

 the const of this district. 



Anefrionia sulcata Penn. (Anthea cereits EUis^, Actinia 

 equina L. (A. 7?iesembryanthemum E. and S. j, Ceirus peduii- 

 culatus Penn. ( Sagartia bellis E. and S.j, and Meti-idium 

 senilis L. (Actinoloba dianthus EUis^ are generally distributed. 

 Cylista viduata Miill. is recorded by Thompson from Bangor, 

 Co. Down ; C. coccinea Miill. appeared to Hyndman ' to 

 be not unfrequent on stones and shells from deep water 

 in Belfast Lough; and Dr. E. P. Wright- said he had 

 seen specimens of C. undata Miill. (Sagartia tt'oglodytes 

 Johnst.) from I>elfast, and thought he had taken this 

 species near the Giant's Causeway and at Portrush. Tealia 

 crassicornis Miill. has been dredged in deep water off the 

 coasts of Antrim and Down ; Adamsia palliata Bohadsch 

 and the red variety of Corynactis viridis Allman have been 

 procured by dredging in Belfast and Strangford Loughs. 

 Epizoaiithus Couchii Johnst. is recorded by Thompson as 

 having been dredged by Hyndman and himself in Strangford 

 Lough: but according to Haddon and .Shackleton •' it may 

 or may not be this species. 



The Cup Coral (Caryophyllia Smithii Stokesj has been 

 dredged, living in 75 fathoms, off the Maidens; and Sphcno- 

 trochits lV?-ightii was described by Cosse from specimens 

 (possibly fossil) dredged on the Turbot Hank by Hyndman. 



Alcyonium digitatum L. — often called "Dead Man's 

 Fingers" or " Dead Man's Toes" — is common on the coasts 

 of Antrim and Down; a few individuals of Sarcodictyon 



1 G. C. Hyndman. — Report of the Belfast Dredging Committee for 1859. 

 Rep. Brit. Assoc, 1859, pp. 116-119. 



2 E. P. Wric;ht.— Notes on the Irish .\ctinidae, with especial Reference 

 to their Distribution. Proc. Dublin Univ. Zool. and Bot. Assoc, i, 1859, 

 pp. 174-188. 



'^ .\. C. Hai>don and Miss A. M. Shackleton. — A Revision of the 

 British ActinijE, part 2. The Zoanthece. Sc Trans. K. D. S., iv (2), 

 1 89 1, pp. 609-672. 



