Browne — Fauna and Flora of Valencia Harbour, Ireland. 679 



The drawings of the Valencia specimens made by the Misses 

 Delap clearly show that a colony has two forms of tentilla. 

 An invoKicrate form (like Sars, Plate v., fig. 6) and an oval 

 form without a spiral cnidoband (Plate vi., fig. 10). In some 

 colonies the latter form is only present ; in others both forms 

 are present — the involucrate form occupying the central portion 

 of the siphosome. 



The tricornuate form has not yet been seen in any of the 

 Yalencia specimens. 



1895. Small colonies abont an inch in length were not un- 



common during April and May. The largest was 

 taken on April 18th, and measured 5 inches. The 

 colonies were of a brilliant red colour, and the ten- 

 tilla were of a simple oral shape. 



The Misses Delap found colonies in July, and several on 

 September 28th ; the largest was 14 inches in length when 

 fully extended. 



1896. It was scarce during my visit in the summer, and only 



foui' small colonies, less than an inch ia length, were 

 found. A few nectocalyces were taken in the tow- 

 net on I^ovember 6th. 



1897. It occurred from March to I^ovember. Abiindant about 



the middle of April, in 'May, and July. A specimen 

 taken in April measui'ed 10 inches in length, and had 

 fourteen pairs of nectocalyces. Yery abundant during 

 September and October ; some seen with sixteen pairs 

 of nectocalyces. 



1898. It was taken from March to December. Pairly common 



in August. Very abundant in October. 



This Siphonophore is one of the animals which suffers badly 

 from the destructive power of gales. In October, 1897 and 

 1898, Cupidita was very abundant, but almost disappeared 

 after the first heavy gale. The Misses Delap informed me that 

 after a very rough sea, early in IN^ovember, 1898, the tow-net 

 was full of isolated pneumatophores. 



It belongs to the faun.a of the Atlantic. Sai's found his 

 specimens on the coast of Norway. Greene (1857) has 

 recorded Agalmopsis elegans^ Sars, for Kingstown Harbour., 

 At Port Erin, in April, 1894, I foimd several small specimens 

 of a Siphonophore about an inch ia length, and recorded its 



