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I. Ohaervatiom on, and additions to. the list of Cornish Poly%oa. 

 By C. W. Peach, A.L.S. 



Read May 2,Zrd, 1876. 



ON looking over the Zoophytes I collected in Cornwall more 

 than 20 years ago, and others I got there in 1869, I find 

 that I have amongst them some new to Cornwall ; and others, 

 though known — from being able to add a little more to their 

 history, I have thought it right to send these notes for your 

 Annual Meetmg as supplementary to Hineks's list. I have one 

 regret, that my contribution is so small. 



1. Calarea Boryi — Adouin. I send you. for inspection a small 

 but characteristic specimen of this pretty species. I got it on 

 the rib of an old crab-pot, at Groran Haven, in 1834, up to 1870 

 it had rested undisturbed as packed in Cornwall in 1849. 

 Hincks and Miss ('utler got specimens off Budleigh Salterton. 

 I find no record of its being known as Cornish, and have thus 

 the pleasure of adding it to your list. I have no doubt of its 

 being again soon found if those rich bearers of ocean's gems 

 — old crab-pots — are examined ; many of my best things, when 

 I lived at Goran Haven, were got from them. 



2. Calarea Hookeri — Fleming, now C. Ellisii — See Hincks 

 p.p. 36 and 93. The specimens are from the Out Haaf, Shetland, 

 from 80 to 100 fathoms, it is abundant there; I got it in 1864 

 when dredging with Mr. J. Gwyn Jeffreys. These are for 

 your museum for reference should anyone really find it in the 

 West of England. It is no doubt a truly Northern species. 



3. Memhranipora coriaeea, of Busk's British Museum Cata- 

 logue, p. 57. I got this pretty species on shell, off the Cornish 

 coast, in 1849. It is also an addition to your list. I got it also 

 in Shetland, Caithness, and Aberdeenshire. It is illustrated in 

 fiu'uro 1. 



