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REPORT 1868. 



Addenda to the REV. A. M. NORMAN'S Report. 



Gidaris papiUata, Leske. I find that by some accident I have omitted to 

 notice this species in the enumeration of species. It appears to be 

 absent to the east and north-east of Shetland, as during our dredging 

 in those directions we never saw any trace of it, and the fishermen at the 

 Out Skerries were unacquainted with it. The specimens which have 

 been procured through fishermen have been all from the western coast ; 

 and we had the pleasure of dredging the Piper in some numbers, 25-35 

 miles N.N.W off Unst in 110-170 fathoms in company with Spatangus 

 meridionalis and other rarities. They appear to be very sluggish in 

 their movements, as though kept alive for some time in a large tub of 

 water, they showed very little inclination to change their position ; of 

 course, however, they found themselves placed in very unusual and 

 probably very uncongenial conditions. 



AmpJiiura tenuispina, Ljungman, " Tillagg till kannedomen af Skandinaviens 

 Ophiurider," GEfvers. af k. Vet.-Akad. Forh. 1863, p. 360, pi. xv. fig. 1 = 

 Amphipholis elegans var. tenuispina. Ljungman, " Ophiuroidea Yiventia 



