TETHEA. 85 



ish, especially when young ; and that it is covered with a green 

 gelatine. " Lacunre nullae nee puncta stellata apparent in vivo 

 glutine et mucore quodam viridi plus minus obducto." — Zool. 

 Dan. iii. p. 6. 



The Tethia cranium, of Risso (L'Europ. Merid. v. 3G4) is 

 altogether different from the British species. 



2. T. Lyncurium, globose, the surface warted, sparinyhj 



hispid. 



Woodcut, No. 12. 



Tetie sferica, con superficie da tiibercoli semisferici formata, e con 



vertebra nel centra, i)o?ia</, Nat. mar. dell' Adriat. 64, tav. 9. fig. 

 A. B. c. 

 Alcyonium aurantium. Pall, Elench. 357- Esper, Alcyon. tab. 19, 



fig. 4-8 : copied from Donati. 

 Alcyonium Lyncurium, Lin. Syst. 1295. Turt. Gmel. iv. 653. 



Lamour. Cor. Flex. 343. Corall. 246. Bosc, Vers. iii. 159. 

 Alcyonium Cydonium ? Jamaon in Wern. Mem. i. 363. Slew. 



Elem. ii. 432. 

 Spongia verrucosa, Montagu in Wern. Mem. ii. 117, pi. 13, fig. 4, 5. 

 Tethya Ljnicurium, Lam. Anim. s. Vert. ii. 386 : ii. 592, 2de edit. 



Risso, L'Europ. Merid. v. 363. Blainv. Actinol. 544, pi. 91, fig. 



3? Delle Chiaie, Anim. s. Vert. Nap. iii. 116. 

 Tethya verrucosa, Grat/, Brit. PI. i. 362. 

 Tethya sphserica, Flem. Brit. Anim. 520. Bellamy's South Devon, 



268. 

 Cydonium Mulleri ? Flem. Brit. Anim. 516 : Grant in Edin. New 



Phil. Journ. i. 195. Johnst. Brit. Zooph. 191. 



Hab. Coast of Devon, Montagu. " Occurs in abundance 

 attached to rocks and the under sides of stones in the long shal- 

 low bays of Cunnamara. I have constantly found it on rocky 

 points jutting out in the heads of muddy bays, where the col- 

 lector will be nearly to his knees in mud passing from rock to 

 rock. It lives at about half-tide mark," Mr William M'Colla. 



Sponge globous, usually contracted at the base, about an inch 

 in diameter, compact and fleshy, of a dirty yellowish colour, the 

 upper half covered with closely set but equal flattish turbercles 



