74 MARINE POLYZOA. 



? F. coronata, And. i. 239. pi. 9. f. 6. 



Lepralia Gattyse, Landsborough, Hist. Brit. Zooph. pi. 18 fig. 71- 

 Hab. Sidmouth, Mrs. Gatty. On Phyllophora rubens, Jersey, 

 J. Alder. 



This very pretty species, to which my attention was first drawn 

 by Mrs. Gatty, appears hitherto to have escaped recognition, and 

 as the British Fauna is indebted to that acute observer for this 

 addition, her name has been assigned to it. In some respects it 

 bears a very close resemblance to the figures of F. coronata, 

 Audouin, Savign. Egypt, pi. 9. f. 6, but I am inclined to think 

 that it is distinct from that species, and in fact it seems to me that 

 F. coronata and F. umbracula of the same work are identical ; 

 if so, the ovicells of F. umbracula are so peculiar as at once to 

 remove any suspicion of the former species being one and the 

 same with L. Gatty & ; but besides this, F. coronata appears to 

 want the central umbo w r hich exists in all specimens of L. 

 Gatty (B ; and the cells, if correctly drawn, are much wider below 

 than those of the latter species, which terminate inferiorly in an 

 acute point. The resemblance, however, between the two is very 

 close, and should F. coronata and F. umbracula really not be 

 identical, a very strong suspicion would arise of the identity of 

 the former with L. Gatty ce. 



20. LEPRALIA HYNDMANNI. PL LXXXVII. figs. 5, 6, 7, 8. 



Cells subglobose, raised in front ; mouth orbicular, with a 

 sinus in the middle of the lower lip ; a long slender setose vibra- 

 culum on one side of the body. Ovicell small, arcuate. 



Lepralia Hyndmanni, JoJinst. Hist. Brit. Zooph. ed. 2. p. 306. 



t. 54. fig." 6. 



Herentia Hyndmanni, Gray, List Brit. Rad. p. 122. 

 Hab. Sana Island, Hyndman. Belfast Bay, W. Thompson. 



Beaufort Dyke, off the west coast of Scotland, dredged by 



Capt, Beechey in 110-145 fathoms. 



21. LEPRALIA PERSONATA, n. s. PL XC. figs. 2, 3, 4. 



Cells oval, surface granular ; mouth with a straight lower lip 

 and five to seven spines above ; a long vibracular process on one 

 side of the body, and a central semilunar pore. Ovicell promi- 

 nent, subglobose, with the lower lip very much produced and 

 projecting. 



Hab. East Falkland Islands, 4-10 fathoms, Darwin. On stones 

 and fucus. 



Except in the much larger size of the cells and the greater 

 comparative length of the vibraculum, this form closely ap- 



