356 Mr. W. Thontpson’s Additions to the Fauna of Ireland. 
dredged today by Mr. Hyndman off Castle Chichester, Belfast bay, 
was brought to me. It was taken about a mile from the shore on 
shelly ground in from six to ten fathoms water. Being soon after 
capture sent to Dr. Johnston, it proved as new to him as to myself, 
and was left at Berwick for him to notice until lately, when in con- 
sequence of his having ceased to study the Annelides it was returned 
to me. Professor Allman then kindly undertook its examination and 
determined it to be this Huphrosina. The specimen is an inch in 
length ; the size attributed to the species by M.-Edwards. Two - 
others differing only in being smaller were last year purchased by 
Mr. R. Ball (of M‘Calla), but it was not stated on what part of the 
coast they were procured. ‘This is the first record of the genus Hu- 
phrosina inhabitigg the British seas. M.-Edwards’s specimens were 
taken on oyster-banks in the two neighbouring localities of St. Malo 
and between Granville and Chausey ; in the latter locality, a league 
and a half from the shore, and at the depth of fifteen fathoms. 
* Octobothrium (?) Merlangi, 
(Octostoma Merlangi, Kuhn.),” Nordmann, Mikrogr. Biet. p. 78. 
pl. 7. 
Specimens of this parasite were found attached to the gills of 
whiting (Gadus Merlangus) in April; to those of the hake (Gadus 
Merlucius) in May ; and to those of the pollack (Gadus Pollachius) in 
October 1837, by Dr. Bellingham of Dublin, in the market of which 
city the fish were purchased. The specimens are mostly about 4 lines 
in length. The genus has not before been noticed as found in the 
British seas. 
ZOOPHYTES. 
1. Gorgonia verrucosa, Linn., Johnst. Brit. Zooph. 
The first Gorgonia of any species which I have seen from the coast 
of Ireland, was a portion of G. verrucosa sent to me im March last 
by Mr. R. Ball. ‘The specimen was procured at the island of Lam- 
bay, off the Dublin coast, and taken to Mr. Warren by the man who 
found it on account of the size (18 inches from base to extremity of 
branches), he having never seen any so large before*. 
of Aud. and Edw. Along with the Euphrosina, a singular new species, of 
which Dr. Johnston constituted the genus Spinther (S. oniscoides), was 
taken; it is included in the former family. 
* This has been erroneously called Gorgonia flabellum in the published 
list of donations to the Dublin University Museum, Dec. 1848, p.8. A 
specimen of G. flabellum with the root attached was brought up in a trawl- 
net from eight to ten fathoms depth off Bangor, Belfast bay, last summer, 
by Mr. Hyndman, who judiciously considered it a foreign specimen. That 
it had for some time been a denizen of our seas was however evident from 
the native productions which were attached, such as Crisia eburnea, Cellu- 
laria ciliata; Grantia compressa and G. ciliata; Serpula triquetra, with 
small portions of Conferve and other native Alge. This Gorgonia was 14 
inches in height and the same in breadth. 
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