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Foraminifera plentiful : Cornuspira f oliacea, Thurammina papillata, 

 Gaudiyina iiliforniis, Sphgeroidina biiUoides, PTiUenia qiiinqiieloba, 

 Pulvinulina micheliiiiarLa, Chilostoniella ovoidea ; Halcampa arenacea, 

 sp. n. (11), Caryophyllia clarus, vars. borealis and sniithii ; C. cylin- 

 drica, Virgularia mirabilis (11); Astropecten irregularis, Luidia sarsii, 

 Amphiura fiKfor-mis, OpMoglypha lacertosa, 0. albida, Cucumaria 

 pentactes (10); Amphictene auricoma (21), Owenia filiformis (21). 

 Terebratulina caput-serpentis, rare ; Crania anomala, common ; Inachus 

 dorsettensis, Ebalia crancbii, Spiropagurus laevis, Steiracrangon all- 

 manni. 



Station IY. — Ballinskellig Bay. 



Log !N'o 13. — About one and a-half mile X.E. of Skarriff ; depth. 

 27 fathoms ; bottom, stones and rocks. (Beam- 

 trawl with two attached tow nets carried away, 

 also two dredges fouled, and came up with only a 

 few rounded stones.) 



Log jS^o. 14. — South end of Ballinskellig Bay; one mile I^. E. of 

 Hog's Head; depth 17 to 12 fathoms ; stones. 



Log i^o. 15. — Xorth end of Ballinskellig Bay, about half a mile 

 from shore ; depth 5 fathoms ; fine sand, with 

 Zostera. 



Foraminifera rare. Campanularia angulata. Usual common 

 Echinoderms. Dentalium entalis, Loligo media. 



Station V. — About twenty-five miles W. IN". TT. of Great Skellig ; 

 lat 51° 46' :*[. ; long. 11° 13' W. 



Log Ko. 16. — Twenty-six miles W.xs'.W. (by compass) of Great 

 Skellig; depth. 120 fathoms; sand. 



Log ISTo. 17. — Thi-ee and a-half miles S. of IN'o. 16; depth 110 

 fathoms ; sand. 



Foraminifera. — Most abundant, and of exceptional interest. A large 

 quantity of the sea-bottem was brought up at Log. ISo. 17, in -whicli 

 one hundred and forty-three species and varieties were afterwards 

 found — sixteen of these are new to Britain — besides many others 

 which have been rarely met with off our coast. Echinodermata. — 

 Ophioglypa affinis, not unfi-equent, of small size ; Echinus micros- 

 toma, common ; Spatangus raschi, fragments. Yermes. — jS^iomache 

 lumbricalis, Trophonia plumosa (?) ; Hyalinoecia tubicola, Owenia 

 filiformis, and Lanice conchylega. Ostracoda. — Yery scarce, many 

 consisting of only a single valve ; the most interesting are Cythere 

 etlobulifera, Cytheropteron alatum, Loxoconcha fragilis, and Cythe- 

 ridea sorbyana. It is somewhat remarkable that Cytheridea punctil- 

 lata is here common, while the really much commoner C. papillosa is 



