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5. Haliphysema confertum, n.sp. (Pl. XVI. figs. 1, 2.) 
Animal consisting of a bunch of “ persons ” attached toge- 
ther by their bases, and forming nearly a complete ball. 
Body of person nearly spherical, attached by a long slender 
pedicel. Pedicel 3-4 times as long, and not more than one 
fourth as broad, as the body. Mouth-opening very large. 
E:xtraneous bodies, which incrust the animal, consisting, on 
the pedicel, of sand-grains and other very minute bodies ; on 
the body, of sand-grains and Foraminifera. 
Diameter of a cluster, containing forty or fifty “‘ persons,” 
about one millim.; length of a “‘ person”’ about one third of a 
millim. 
Hab. ‘ Valorous’ Expedition, 1875, Station No. 9, lat. 59° 
10' N., iong. 50° 25! W., 1750 fathoms. The position of this 
dredging is just within Davis Strait. 
Two clusters of the above organism were found; the one 
had all the bodies broken off, and consisted of a nearly 
globular aggregation of the pedicels ; the other had several of 
the bodies still remaining. It is not without doubt that I. 
place this organism in the genus Haliphysema, because the 
extraneous material is not apparently completely built into 
the substance of the body-wall, but appears rather as though 
clinging to a viscid substance which holds it. The fact, 
however, that in the pedicels the extraneous bodies are all of 
very minute size, whereas on the exterior of the round body- 
cavity an occasional minute Globigerina is found to have a 
place, seems to argue a selection on the part of the animal; 
and I know of know other order to which these animals can 
be referred. 
III. On two new Genera perhaps allied to Haliphysema. 
Genus TECHNITELLA, n. g. 
(rexvirns, an artificer.) 
Test elliptical, cylindrical, or subfusiform, composed of the 
broken fragments of sponge-spicula arranged parallel to the 
axis and enclosed entirely, or rarely only partially, in the 
body-wall. Unattached below and closed. A tubular mouth- 
opening formed by a contraction for a short distance of the 
body-walls so as to form a short tube. 
Technitella legumen, n. sp. (Pl. XVI. figs. 3, 4.) 
The form of the test in this animal reminds one somewhat 
of the outline of the pod of the edible pea, being cylindrical 
throughout the greater part of its length, with the aboral 
