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XI 11. — A Month on the Trondhjem Fiord. 

 By tlie Rev. Canon Norman, M.A., D.C.L., F.R.S., &c. 



[Continued from vol. xii. p. 452.] 



[Plates VI. & VII.] 



Genus Kinekoskias, Danielssen. 



(Additional notes on the genus.) 



Kinekoskias Smitti, Dan. 



Add to the synonymy of my previous notes given on p. 4.4:8 

 of vol. xii. the following : — 



1875. Bugula -ftexilis, Verrill, "Brief Contrib. XXXII. Results 

 Dredging New England Coast, 1874," Amer. Journ. Sci. vol. ix. 

 p. 415, pi. vii. figs. 1, 2. 



1879. Kinekoskias Jiexilh, Verrill, " Eecent Additions Marine Invert, 

 N.E. Amer.," Proe. U.S. Nat. Mus. p. 189 (no description). 



1879. Kinekoskias Smitti, Dub. & 'K.OT.,=^Bugida Jie^vilis, Verr., VeiiiU, 

 Prelim. Check-List Marine Invert. Atlantic Coast, Cape Cod to 

 Gulf of St. Lawrence, p. 29 (name only). 



1885. Kitiekoskias {Biujiilopsis) fle.vilis, Verrill, " Results Explor. 

 ' Albatross,' 1883," Ann. Rep. Comm. Fish and Fisheries for 1883, 

 p. 530 (no description). — Bwjidopsis, to which the species is here 

 referred, is a genus established by VerriU, A\ith Cellularia Peuchii, 

 Busk, as the type, upon the valid groimds that Cellularia of Busk is 

 not Pallas's genus of that name. 



Since the last part of these notes was published, having 

 had occasion to refer to some of Verrill's papers, I came across 

 his figure of JBicgidaJiexilis, and was at once struck with the 

 absolute identity of his illustrations and my own of Kine- 

 koskias Smitti, and I hnd that he subsequently referred liis 

 species to that of Danielssen. Verrill speaks of the branches 

 as " tapering gradually to the point of attachment," but 

 makes no mention of a stalk ; but even should tlie species 

 assume a different habit on the other side of the Atlantic, the 

 zooecial characters being the same, there can, I take it, be 

 no question as to the propriety of uniting the forms. It is 

 interesting that Danielssen's species lias its range thus ex- 

 tended. It occurs in deep water (194 fathoms) off" the coasts 

 of Maine and Nova Scotia. I have found a fragment labelled 

 ^^Kinekoskias iSmitti, = B((<jula jie.vilisj^^ which was sent to 

 me by Professor Verrill. It is in spirit, but in bad condition, 

 having been apparently at some time dried ; but it apjjears 

 to bear out the synonymy. 



