HA.P. III.] THE CRUISES OF THE ' porcupine: 87 



reather, off Valentia and between Valentia and 

 Talway, at depths varying from 80 to 808 fathoms 

 Station 2), with a temperature at the latter depth of 

 »°-2 0. The general character of the fauna was that 

 ^rhich we have hitherto been in the habit of regarding 

 IS Northern. Several interesting things were met 

 nth — Nucula tumidula, Malm.; Ledafrigida,ToiiMi,i>; 

 Verticordia abyssicola, jEFrnETS ; and Siphonodenta- 

 ium quinquangulare, Pobbes. Among the echino- 

 lerms a multitude of the large form oi Echinus none- 



Fig. 8.— GoTiopZaa: rAom&oides, Paekicius. Young. Twice the natural size. (No. 3.) 



^icus, D. and K., which I am now inclined to regard, 

 ilong with several of its allies, as a mere variety of 

 'E. flemingii, Ball ; and the fine asterid already 

 nentioned, Brisinga coronata, G. O. Sars. Some 

 nteresting crustaceans, including Gonoplax rhom- 

 'wides, Eab. (Fig. 8), a well-known Mediterranean 

 species, and a young specimen of Geryon tridens, 

 ECeoteb. (rig. 9), a rare Scandinavian form, and the 

 )nly known North European brachyurous crustacean 



