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delighted us with its beauty. Many undescribed species were 

 met with. Preeminent among these were : — a new genus allied 

 to Dromia* ; a very curious new genus of Galatheidse, which 

 is blind and has the eyestalks converted into spine- tipped 

 processes ; a new Palsemonid remarkable for having its cara- 

 pace girt with a ring of spines ; and a Scalpellum apparently 

 new. 



Among the Gephyrea were two species recently described 

 by Danielssen and Koren from the Norwegian coast and 

 not hitherto found further south — the grand Sipunculus pria- 

 puloides, which is the largest and most interesting species of 

 the genus known to me ; and the curious little Ochnesoma 

 Steenstrupii. This latter species I dredged last year in great 

 abundance at the mouth of the Hardanger fiord, Norway. 

 A third Gephyrean obtained is also perhaps the Phascolosoma 

 squamatum of the same authors. 



In the Fosse de Cap-Breton the curious Annelid Sternaspis 

 thalassemoides, Otto, which was formerly referred to the 

 Gephyrea, was found abundantly. 



Several examples of the much-disputed Chtetoderma niti- 

 dulum were obtained. This is one of those animals which, 

 exhibiting relationship to more than one class in almost 

 equal ratio, becomes, by its somewhat intermediate characters, 

 of special interest. 



Only a single Polyzoon occurred. This was Triticella 

 Bceckii, or an allied species. It was infesting the Crab 

 Geryon tridens, on which same host the species just named 

 was discovered by Professor G. O. Sars. 



There was a remarkable absence of Hydrozoa. 



In no class is the collection finer than among the Actinozoa. 

 Of Actinians not secreting a corallum there were a new Pa- 

 ly thoa (parasitic on the spines of Cidaris papillata), an Actinia 

 (Adamsia ?) parasitic on an Isis, and two or three other things 

 which were not recognized by us. Of corals there were 

 Caryophyllia clavus, a Flabellum belonging to the Flabellum 

 apertum group (in which the corallum is little or not at all 

 compressed), a Deltocyathus, and Lophohelia prolifera. Of 

 Gorgonian allies there were Gorgonia verrucosa and at least 

 two species of Isis, one of which was of considerable size, and 

 when dredged at night was gorgeously phosphorescent, exhi- 

 biting a blaze of light. Of Virgularians there were many fine 

 species, including two large forms of Virgularia (or a closely 

 allied genus), what appeared to be a Scytalium of very elegant 



* M. Alplionse Milne-Edwards had previously seen this among the 

 Crustacea dredged by A. Agassiz in the ' Blake,' and proposes to name it 

 Dicranodromia ovata. 



