258. Scientifie Intelligence. 
5. Fauna Littoralis Norvegie ; edited by J. Koren and Dr, 7 
D. C. Dante LSSEN. Part I], with 16 plates. Bergen, 1877.— — 
parallel columns, The A treated are as follows: N 
little known Coelenterates, by M. Sars; New Echinoderms, 
ars; Descriptions of some new Norwegian Ceelenterates, by 4 
Koren and Danielssen; Contributions to the natural history of — 
ve 4 sapnenagr living | on the Norwegian Coast; Descriptions of 
B 
oast; 
ew Bryoz oe to the natural history of the Nor-_ 
y 
a. ay: hes we; a New species of the genus Pennella (P. 
i ecsesoas. "The last four ar he ips are ony Koren and Danielssen. — 
A * 
Ptilelia franiss Ponta ons teh ‘Foan peda, aculeata ; 
Pavonaria (=Balticina) Finmarchica. The Alcyonium Sruti- 
cosum Sars paar pe bei ey with our common A. carneuin 
Agassiz, of earlier date. he Corymorpha glacialis Sars is 
apparently the same as C. see a Agassiz, of later date. ‘Two 
very different forms, figured as Myriothela phrygia, are supposed 
to represent different stages of growth. The form with gono- 
those here ates: i with th brician fiero ecimen 
Halifax, N.S ,in 52 fathoms, 1877, i t three inches (75™™ ; maid 
in alcoho e tentaculiferous portion is long and slender, densely covered with 
a 
(when mature 2™™ jn diameter) and are borne in clusters of three to ten, on the 
sides of lateral blastostyles, of different lengths, cach of which bears, at its tapering 
group of capitate tentacles, unequal in size. These blastostyles les, with 
gonophores near the bases of the blastostyles are much ler, there being 
usually only two ar; The mature gonophores contain embryos, 
covered with tentacles, like those described by Sars. ( . tes . 
rosea V. are of the same kind, but smaller). The base gives rise to 
cluster of short, slender processes, enlarged at the ends, with atineies “disks fo 
attachment. I believe that this is the genuine phrygia of Fabricius, and 
bn od ores oan y Sars (originally as M. arctica) will prove to be distinct, it ths 
gures 
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