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4. Lepralia lahrosa — Busk. This is also new to Cornwall. 

 Hincks, at page 44, says, " not common, in a valve of Cardiuni 

 from the Brixham trawl boats, on Pecteu, Start Bay." Mine I 

 got on shell off Fowey, about ^ mile from the shore, and again 

 in 1869 from a stone hooked up by a fisherman 5 miles off the 

 Deadman. The cells are generally dark coloured, deeply 

 punctured, the lip thickened and expanded, usually deficient 

 behind and white, thus contrasting with the dark cells. The 

 ovicells small, recumbent, and punctueed ; mine thus differing 

 from Bush'' s. "It occurs fossil in the Eed Crag." I got it in 

 Shetland, and at "Wick, in Caithness ; Thompson, in Belfast 

 Bay. Though wide-spread it is not common. See figure 2. 



5. Lepralia Woodiana — Busk. Hincks' Cat. page 42 ; Busk's 

 Crag Polyzoa, page 7. From the Deadman, on the stone I got 

 in 1869. Hincks — " a single specimen only has been met with 

 S.W. of Polperro from 30 fathoms." I got only one, it showed 

 like the Polperro one, " two long slender viiracuJa, which cross 

 one another above the orifice ; " these organs are not always 

 shown ; they have also six short, stout, blunt spines on the 

 distal lip, rising vertically from it. The cells, like those figured 

 in the '' Crag Polyzoa," have a single row of punctures round the 

 margin ; these are not often seen, in consequence of the doubling 

 in of the lower parts of the cells, the body swells over and hides 

 them, and they can only be seen when a single-cell is met with, 

 or the surrounding ones broken away. I send a specimen from 

 Shetland showing the vihracula, for your museum. It is rather 

 abundant from 100 to 170 fathoms off Shetland. See figure 3. 



6. Lepralia eximia. New to Cornwall- Hincks figures it 

 in Zoophytology, part III, figures 3, 3a, from the coast of 

 Antrim. Mine is another of my prizes from the Deadman in 

 1869. It is a well marked species. See figure 4. 



7. Cellepora-edax. First figured by Busk, in his Crag Polyzoa, 

 part XXII, figure 3. Mine I got off the Deadman 25 years ago, 

 from a crab-pot. It is a rather puzzling species, covering a 

 small spiral shell (Nassa), and was, when first got, bright red. 

 It is rare, for in 5 years, I got about as many specimens, they 

 have dwindled away to two, the one sent is for your museum. 

 Hincks got a single specimen "on a Ttirritella (?) from PljTiiouth, 

 and thus this is another addition to jowv Cornish list. One of 



