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REPORT 1868. 



Besides the foregoing, there are several whose examination, partly from 

 their fragmentary state, has not been completed, and which are at any rate 

 in the category of those new to Britain, viz. a Sigalion, a SylUs, an Amaye, 

 and a Polydrrus. 



I may also remark, in passing, with reference to the other known forms 

 in this collection, that the Halosydna Jeffrey sii, Lankester (op. cit.}, is //. 

 yelatinosa, Sars, as mentioned in Dr. Giinther's Zoological Record for 1866 ; 

 and that I have not yet been able to make out a specific difference between 

 Leodice norvegica, Linn., and Eunice Harassii, And. & Ed. 



In addition to the foregoing, there was a very remark able Nemerteaii allied 

 to Borlasia, with a bifid proboscis, a complex structure of the muscular wall 

 of the body ; and a boring Sipunculus, lodged in its cavity inside a fragment 

 of shell. 



Report on the Shetland Foramini/era for 1868. By EDWARD WALLER. 



THE almost unexampled stormy character of the summer in the Shetland 

 Islands this year necessarily prevented dredging in the depths of 200 and 

 more fathoms, which your Committee hoped to attain, and from which they 

 reasonably expected additions to the British fauna in various departments. 



The disappointment has, of course, affected the increase in the number of 

 Foraminifera as of other orders. Notwithstanding this drawback, the exami- 

 nation of some of the fine siftings of our dredged stuff, even in a very cursory 

 way, has brought to view some interesting forms hitherto unknown on our 

 coasts. Amongst them a genus new to Britain, FlabeUina, the observed 

 species being very similar to the Fldbellina ruyosa, D'Orb., as found in the 

 Lias of Somersetshire, and figured by Mr. H. B. Brady in the ' Proceedings 



