102 MISCELLANEA. 



V I . — Miscellanea. 



Neomenia carinata? Tullberg. — Two specimens of this in- 

 teresting mollusc have been in my possession for many 

 years unrecognised. They were dredged thirty miles off 

 Sunderland in a depth of forty fathoms. I am indebted to 

 Dr. Sidney S. Harmer, F.R.S., of Cambridge, for the identi- 

 fication, respecting which, however, it may be well to quote 

 the following extract from his letter : " It is obvious from 

 Wiren's paper that it is not easy to discriminate between 

 the species without microscopical examination. If one may 

 assume that this is one of the two hitherto recorded British 

 species — N. carinata and N. dalyelli- — though I am by no 

 means sure that that is a safe assumption, then I take the 

 specimen which is left in my hands to be N. carinata, simply 

 because it appears to me to have a dorsal keel." Previous 

 British records of Neotnenia carinata had been made by the 

 Rev. Canon Norman (see Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History, 1879) ; the exact locahty seems to have been lost, 

 though Dr. Norman entertains no doubt that it was in the 

 Shetland seas that it was "dredged. It has been recorded 

 also by Sir John Murray from upper Loch Etive, 50-70 

 fathoms. Of my two specimens I have retained one, and it 

 is now preserved in the Museum of the Durham College of 

 Science; the other specimen I gave to Dr. Harmer for the 

 Cambridge University Museum. Neomenia is of special 

 interest as representing, along with Chiton and other allied 

 genera, the most primitive type of moUuscan organisation. 



It may be interesting to add that two other species of 

 Aplacophora, Rhopalonema aglaiophenice, Kow. & Mar., and 

 Myzomenia Banyulensis, Pruvot, have been recorded from 

 Plymouth by Mr. Walter Garstang. These were found coiled 

 round the stems and branches of two Zoophytes, Aglaiophenia 

 myriophyllum and Lafoea dumosa. — G. S. Brady, Feb. 20th, 

 igo2. 



Echinoderes. — It has happened to me to take specimens 

 of this peculiar group of animals (Kinorhyncha) on at least 



