386 TROF. E. A. MINCHIN ON THE BRITISH [DeC. 13, 



9. BoM-erbank Coil., 985, Specimen figured in Brit. Spong. 

 iii. pi. iii. fig. 1, with label in Bowerbank's handwriting 

 " Leucosolenia hotryoides, Shetland." A quite normal 

 specimen of variabilis with fairly large spicules. 



10. Bowerbank Coll., 979. Labelled in Bowerbank's hand- 



writing " Leucosolenia hotryoides^ Shetland." 



11. Bowerbank Coll.,. 964. Label as in the foregoing. 



12. Register No. 47.9.7.112. Label '■'■Grantia hotryoides var." 

 Lloly Island, Johnston Collection. 



[Register No. 83.12.4.17, labelled '■'■ Ascandra varia- 

 hilis H. Adria, Triest," is a specimen of a species totally 

 distinct from variabilis, which I have not yet been able 

 to identify with certainty.] 

 (c) From the Berlin Museum. 



13. No. 417. Specimens received from Haeckel; locality 

 Bergen. My preparation shows quite typical spicules 

 of variabilis mixed Avith those of a Sycon. (See text- 

 fig. 96, figg. 21 a~2lp, p. 381.) 



3. Leucosolenia botryoides. 



Spovgia botryoides Ellis & Solander, 1786, Nat. Hist. Zoophytes, 

 p. 190, pi. Iviii. figg. 1-4. 



Spongia botryoides Montagu, 1812, Wernerian Mem. ii. p. 89. 



Spongia botryoides pars Grant, 1826, Edinb. Phil. Journ. xiv, 

 p. 339 ; Edinb. New Phil. Journ. i. p. 169. 



Spongia botryoides pars Grant, 1827, Edinb. New Phil. Journ. 

 ii. p. 135. 



Grantia botryoides pars Fleming, 1828, Hist. Brit. Animals, 

 p. 525. 



Calcispongia botryoides de Blainville, 1836, Manuel dActino- 

 logie, p. 531. 



Grantia botryoides pars Johnston, 1842, Brit. Spong. and 

 Lithophytes, p. 178. 



Leucosolenia botryoides Bowerbank 1864, Mon. Brit. Spong. i. 

 p. 164, pi. xxvi. figg. 347, 348 ; (1866) ii. p. 28. 



Grantia lieberhuhnii Schmidt, 1866, Spong. Adriat. Meer. 

 Suppl. ii. pp. 8, 20. 



Leucosolenia hotryoides Gray, 1867, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, 

 p. 555. 



Leucosolenia botryoides Schmidt, 1868, Spong. Adriat. Meer. 

 Suppl. iii. p. 31. 



Olynthitim nitidum Haeckel, 1870, Jena. Zeitschr. v. p. 237. 



Olynthium splendid^on Haeckel, 1. c. p. 237. 



Leticosolenia {Leuceria) botryoides Haeckel, 1870, 1, c. p. 243. 



L^eucosolenia granti Haeckel, 1870, 1. c. p. 243. 



Ascaltis hotryoides Haeckel, 1872, Kalkschwamme, ii. p. 65, 

 pi. 9. fig. 10, pi. 10. figg. 7a-7 e. 



Ascandra hotrys Haeckel, 1872, 1. c. p. 101, pi. 16. figg. 1 a-lf. 



Ascandra nitida Haeckel, 1872, 1. c. p. 103, pi. 16. figg. 2a-^q, 

 pi. 17. figs. .3, 7, 10, 13. 



