BEAumoNT — Fauna and Flora of Valencia Sarhoury Ireland. 755 



Siphonostoma diplochaetos. The Gephyrean Phymosoma papillosa also 

 occurs. Eesicles the commoner littoral forms of jSTudibranchiate 

 Mollusca, fine specimens of ^olidieUa gJcmca and Antiopa hyalina 

 were ottained here ; and the Pynogonida PhoxicMlidium femoratum 

 and Anoplodadylus femoratum. 



At Eeenagiveen there are some good rock-pools at rarious levels, 

 some of Trhich are well stocked with Anemones, including several 

 species of Sagartia ; and with the " burrowing " urchin {Strongyloce^i- 

 trotus lividus). Algae from these pools and the neighbouring reefs 

 (and here may be included similar material from the stone-piers at 

 Knightstown) yielded a number of small organisms of interest : the 

 creeping Medusa ClavateUa proUfera, Nemertines of the genus Tetra- 

 stemma^ including the rai'e T. nigrum, Eiches, many Rhabtloccele Tur- 

 bellaria, and the Opisthobranch Mollusca Limapontia nigra, Actceonia 

 corrugata, and Runcina Sancoclci. The Archiannelid Dinophilus tcenia- 

 tus, Harmer, was also abiindant in the spring. 



Beyond Eeenagiveen the rocks are more precipitous for some distance, 

 while the west shore of Glanleam Bay resembles that nearer KJnights- 

 town, and has a similar but impoverished fauna. Southward, fi'om 

 "Knightstown Ferry -pier, past the Telegraph Station, the shore is 

 covered with stones of small size. Under one of these the Hydi-oid 

 Rki%ogeton fusiformis, Agassiz, belonging to a genus not previously 

 known on this side of the Atlantic, was found ; another member of the 

 apparently scanty Hydroid fauna of Yalencia, Coryne vaginata, was 

 common here and on the adjacent stone piers. JSTudibranchs were also 

 fairly abundant, especially LameUidaris lilamellata and Facelina coronata. 



Church Island is a small rock situated between Beginnis and the 

 mainland, and connected with the former by a sand-spit which dries 

 at spring-tides. On its southern and western sides are many stones of 

 negotiable size which shelter a fairly rich and varied fauna, on the 

 whole very similar to that of "Knightstown shore. Most noteworthy 

 here was the discovery of parasitic Copepoda living embedded in 

 colonies of the compound Ascidian Morchellium. 



These have been described as new species {Aplostoma Beaumonti 

 and Aplostoma Mlernica) by Messrs. T. and A. Scott. ^ 



On the north side of Beginnis, running out towards Lamb Island, 

 there is a bank of boulders with a fauna like that of Church Island. 



lAnn. and Mag. Nat. Hist., Series 6, vol. xvi., 1895, pp. 359-60, PI. xvi., 

 ivii. In this Paper a description and figures are also given of another parasitic 

 copepod from Yalencia, Lomanticola insoleno, gen. etsp. n., which was found living 

 in the Nudibranch Lomanoius marmoraius by Mr. Gamble. 



