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XLII. 
BRANCHED WORM-TUBES AND ACROZOANTHUS. 
By PROFESSOR A. C. HADDON, M.A., F.Z.5., 
Royal College of Science, Dublin. 
[Read January 23; Received for publication May 20; Published Juny 27, 1895.] 
Numerous specimens of Lophohelia prolifera were dredged at a 
depth of 220 fathoms, fifty miles off Bolus Head, county Kerry, 
during the Society’s Fishery Survey.!. Most of these are infested 
by the tubes of Hunice philocorallia, Buch. Miss Buchanan? refers 
(p. 174) to the commensalism of the worm with the coral, and 
1K. W. L. Holt: ‘‘ Survey of Fishing Grounds,”’ etc., Proc. R.D.S., VII. (N.S8.) 
1892, p. 261. 
2 “Report on Polychets, collected during the Royal Dublin Society’s Survey off the 
West Coast of Ireland. Part I.—Deep-Water Forms.’’ By Florence Buchanan. 
Proc. R.D.8. VIII. (N.S.) 1893, p. 169. 
