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appearance of a bright red cross, shining conspicuously through the trans- — 
parent disk, when the animal is seen floating beneath the surface of the 
water. 
New forms of Slabberia, Oceania, &c., occurred in the western entrance of 
Berehaven, as also many specimens of Willsia stellata. 
Except for their abundance, the following Ctenophora would hardly merit 
notice, viz. Cydippe pileus and pomiformis, Mnemea Norvegica, and Berée 
ovata. This latter swam in shvuals; several of the specimens being of a 
very large size and of a bright roseate hue, frequently diversified with a 
play of iridescent colours. In Berehaven Harbour we also obtained an 
apparently new species of Tomopteris ; its otherwise transparent body glittered 
with many bright sherry-coloured spots, and we were enabled to investigate 
with some care the anatomy of this very anomalous creature. 
The List of Zoantharia appended (List B) will show the species that 
occurred. Insome parts of the coast, as off Crookhaven and Dingle, the whole 
surface of the rocks for many square yards was covered with specimens of 
Corynactis viridis, so far belying its specific name as to appear of the most 
brilliant purple, as often as of a bright green, varied with many of a rich 
peach colour. Every excavation that the waves had worn in the slaty 
Devonian, was inhabited by Sagartia venusta, S. rosea, and others of the genus; 
and we observed that at Parkmore Point, near Venty, Tubularia indivisu 
abounded in such quantities, that in one place a piece of rock about 20 feet 
long by 10 or so broad, and covered by | or 2 feet of water, was one dense 
forest of this interesting Hydrozoon; others of this latter division were ob- 
served, but details thereof are reserved for a future occasion. 
Among the Echinodermata, we may mention that Uraster glacialis occurred 
very commonly, and several specimens were dredged, which measured 32 
inches in diameter; Luidia fragillissima and Asterias aurantiaca were not 
unfrequent. Amphidotus roseus occurred in Bantry Bay. From the list 
appended, it will be seen that nearly all the Asteriade, with but few ex- 
ceptions, have been obtained on the coast of Ireland. 
Cribella rosea and Goniaster Templetoni have been taken by Dr. Ball on 
the Nymph Bank off Waterford, and at Youghal. Several new species also 
occurred to us. We think we have discovered the “ first appearing” on the 
south coast of the Hchinus lividus, on some sunken rocks out at sea; and it 
appears to us that a curious relation exists between the vertical and geogra- 
phical distribution of the species in question, since the higher the latitude 
in which it is found, the shallower the water it would appear to frequent. 
We have been led to this conclusion from observations made by us on its 
occurrence around the west and south coasts of Ireland. At Dingle, for 
example, it lives and thrives high up in the Littoral Zone; whereas about 
the Cape Clear district, it loves the deep rock pools, where it is only exposed 
to view at the very lowest tides, and even then with from 10 to 15 feet of 
water always over it. The rare Hehinus Flemingii has been taken by Dr. 
Ball at Youghal. (See List A.) 
Of the Crustacea a long list could be furnished, but we would only allude 
to the capture of the various species of Ebalia on sandy ground in Castle- 
townsend and Berehaven; of Xantho vivulosa at Valentia, where it was 
taken in 1856 by Dr. Kinahan; and Péirimeda denticulata in Dingle by Wm. 
Andrews, Esq. Galathea Andrewsii, a species recently added to science by 
Dr. Kinahan, was dredged in the greatest abundance. 
Of the Mollusca little mention need be made,—Doris flammea, coccinea, 
the two Hermeas recorded in Alder and Hancock, Holis Farrani, &ce. 
were found, the latter three very abundantly ; a large number of Tunicata 
