Beaumont — Fauna and Flora of Valencia Harhour; Ireland. 763 



1| miles S. JF. of Braij Head. — 45 fms. ca. Mr. Walker's Station 7.^ 

 Bottom, coarse sand (chiefly comminuted slate), pebbles, and a few 

 shell fragments ; all very much water- worn, the shells consisting of 

 mere stumps of the more massive forms, such as Aporrhais. "We were 

 surprised to find evidence of strong wave-action at so great a depth, 

 even on the open Atlantic coast. The species taken here were Car- 

 inella inexpedata, Hub. (previously found only at ISTaples), Polygordius 

 sp., Glycera capitata, Phascolion Strotnhi, Synapta inhcerens, Anapagurus \\ 

 Hyndnianni, Galnthea intermedia. 'l 



DiSTRiBUTioisr Tables. 



The accompanying tables have been prepared as the readiest means of 

 presenting the results of our shore-collecting and di-edging at Yalencia. 

 It will be obvious that they are very far from complete as regards 

 many divisions of the animal kingdom. In point of fact no attempt 

 was made to obtain complete collections, except in the case of those 

 groups which specially interested us, and of which special Reports 

 have been prepared ; while several classes were entirely neglected 

 {Porifera, Poly%oa, Timicata, &c.). It will accordingly be understood 

 that the apparent poverty of species, in some of the lists which follow, 

 does not warrant the assumption that those groups are but indifferently 

 represented in the fauna of Valencia Harbour. 



CcELENTEEATA. 



(Table, pp. 766-769). 



The few Hydroids which we succeeded in finding were studied by 

 Mr. Browne, whose results appeared in the Irish Natui-alist (vol. vi., 

 1897, pp. 241 et seq). The following list (pp. 766 and 767) is taken 

 from his paper. It is a remarkable fact that hardly any of the 

 Hydroids obtained are Medusa-producing species ; yet the swarms of 

 Hydi'omedusse in the harbour bespeak an abundant hydroid fauna 

 somewhere in the neighbourhood. A special Report on the Lucerna- 

 rida follows (p. 806), 



TUEBELLARIA. 



(Table, pp. 770, 771. Special Report, p. 812). 



Nemeetea. 

 (Table, pp. 772, 773. Special Report, p. 815). 



' Loc. cit., p. 163. 



