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The Secretary read a short communication—“ Note on a new example of 
the Phyllodocide (Anaitis rosea),” by Dr. W. C. McIntosh. This marine 
worm was obtained at St. Andrew’s last autumn, at the margin of low 
water, and sunk several inches in the fine sand. In the genus Anaitis the 
buccal segment carries the first three pairs of tentacular cirri, the fourth 
being on the segment behind. A. rosea measures about one inch and a half 
long, the body being relatively broad to its length; the snout is blunt, and 
the eyes small and circular. The head and tentacles are pale, but in front 
of the eyes, and partly along segments behind, are roseate bands and 
speckles, continuing backwards in a bright yellow band, thus resembling 
certain of the Nemerteans. 
The Secretary likewise read a paper “ On certain New Forms of Actinaria 
dredged in the Deep Sea from on board H.M.S. ‘Challenger’; with a 
Description also of certain Pelagic Surface-swimming Species,” by H. N. 
Moseley, M.A., late Naturalist to the Government Circumnavigating Expe- 
dition. A small part only of what were obtained are accounted for in the 
present paper, occasional rough weather and other ciroumstances often 
preventing immediate attention and descriptions of the animals while fresh. 
Those now delineated and described are as follows :— 
Family Actiniide. Subfam. Minyadine—(1) Nautactis purpureus n. sp. ; 
(2) Larval minyad; (8) Oceanactis rhododactylis, n.gen. Subfam. Acti- 
nine—(1) Actinia abyssicola, n.sp.; (2) A. gelatinosa; (3) Edwardsia 
coriacea, n.sp.; (4) Corallimorphus profundus, n.gen.; (5) C. rigidus, n.sp. 
Family Cerianthidea—(1) Cerianthus bathymetricus, n. sp. 
The occurrence in the deep sea of representatives of shallow water forms 
of sea anemones is of high interest. For example, the above species of 
Edwardsia from 600 fathoms has undergone but a trifling modification from 
the littoral form. The Cerianthus from 2750 is dwarfed, but uncommonly 
like its shore brethren; moreover, under the full glare of the tropical sun 
in shallow water at the Philippines, one kind is found, another species of 
the same genus existing at three miles depth, where solar rays do not 
“penetrate, and the water is at freezing-point. The fact of the deep sea 
anemones retaining vivid colouring in their dark watery abode is a point of 
special value connected with other generalizations. The genus Coralli- 
morphus possesses interest as being a near ally to certain of the simple 
discoid corals, and it has besides the largest nematocysts yet recorded. 
An extract from a letter from Mr. R. D. Fitzgerald, of Sydney, New South 
Wales, relative to the Marsupial Pouch, was briefly adverted to. 
Two botanical papers were read;—‘On the Rootstock of Marattia 
fraxinea, Sm.,” by John Buchanan; and “On Alge collected by Dr. I. 
Bailey Balfour at Rodriguez during the Transit of Venus Expedition, 1874,” 
by Professor Dickie. 
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