386 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
first described by Dr. Leidy of Philadelphia as Pheronema anne, 
and a letter recently received from Dr, Leidy himself more fully 
In my description of other sponges belonging to this same 
Hexactinellate group, read before the Royal Microscopical So- 
ciety, and published in their “ Transactions” for N ovember, 1870, 
T have, in creating a new genus and species, Askonena Setuba- 
lense, erroneously associated Prof. hompson’s name with it as 
having once pronounced the form to be of vegetable and not 
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(Rhabdomina, &e.), and the former being notably abundant m 
cie ties of Lagena and Cristellaria. Many of these 
forms are new to science and await description. 
The Celenterate sub-kingdom has likewise furnished several new 
and rare forms, including among the latter category an example 
of Hyalopat amidal: i 
the 
rium, first taken sparingly 
dantly in the Laminarian zone near Setubal, excited our warmest 
admiration. 
Nothing can exceed the beauty of the elegant opaline polyps 
was experimentally stirred up one dark evening, an rilliant 
umin produced a spectacle too brilliant for words a 
d . The rting stem appeared always to be the chie 
seat of these phosphorescent properties, and from thence the scit- 
tillations traveled onwards to the bodies of the polyps themselves- 
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the supporting stalk, while the individnal polyps, when fully 
exserted, protruded upwards of an inch-and-a-half from this - 
and measured as much as an inch in the diameter 
s Polyzoa were also dredged up from the various 
, many of which remain yet to be identified; but the allied 
