358^ Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society. 



1893. la 1895 a number of specimens — adults and young — 

 were obtained by washing specimens of the common Starfish, 

 Asterias ntbens, in a bottle containing methylated spirit, and 

 afterwards examining the residue. These specimens were of 

 a brick-red colour on the back, but nearly white beneath. 

 Their normal habitat is apparently on this kind of starfish. 



Genus (102) Acontiophorus, Brady, 1880. 



246. Acontiophorus scutatus (Brady and Eobertson). 



1873. Solenostoma scutatum, B. and R., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (4), 



vol. xii. p. 141. 

 1880. Acontiophorus scutatus, Brady, I. c, vol. iii. p. 69, pi. xc. 



figs. 1-10. 



Hob.— Collected near Inchkeith in 1888. Off Mussel- 

 burgh, dredged 30th May 1891, and subsequently collected 

 in various other parts of the estuary; moderately frequent. 



247. Acontiophorus ornatus (Brady and Eobertson). 



1876. Ascomyzon ornatum, B. and R., Brit. Assoc. Rept. for 1875, 



p. 197. 

 1880. Acontiophorus armatus, Brady, I. c, vol. iii. p. 71, pi. lxxxvii. 



figs. 8-15. 



Hah. — Dredged off North Craig on 4th July 1901; rare. 



Genus (103) Scottocheres, Giesbrecht, 1897. 

 248. Scottocheres elongatus (T. and A. Scott). 



1894. Acontiophorus elongatus, T. and A. Scott, Ann. and Mag. Nat. 



Hist. (6), vol. xii. p. 145, pi. ix. figs. 15-20. 

 1898. Scottocheres elongatus, T. Scott, Sixteenth F. B. Rept., pt. iii. 



p. 278, pi. xiii. figs. 10-21. 



Rah. — Obtained in 1893 in material dredged in the 

 neighbourhood of the Bass Kock ; frequent. 



