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has been found by Scbmidt among the Sponges 

 dredged by Pourtales off Florida in 324 fathoms 

 (' Spong. Atlant.,' p. 62) ; and in the " Porcupine" 

 dredgings in the North Atlantic it -was procured from 

 the still greater depth of 640 fathoms (Carter, 1. c.)- 



Among the editor's specimens from Shetland is one 

 which is ten inches high, and a foot in diameter across 

 the edge of the cup. Another very beautiful example 

 is only three inches highj but expands very widely, 

 and has a greatest diameter of thirteen inches, while 

 its surface is proliferous with seven or eight young 

 specimens springing from it. 



Genus 16. — ^MiCEOCioisrA, Bow., i, 188 ; ii, 7. 



1. MiCEOOiONA PiOTiTiA, Bow., II, 124; iii^ 352; PI. 

 XXIII, figs. 1—6, and LXXXII, fig. 20. 



Habitat. — Westport Bay, Co. Mayo ; colour when 

 living yellow, very glairy with abundant sarcode (N.). 



One of the specimens from Westport Bay is a large 

 mass, which measures in the dried state three and a 

 half inches long, two and a half wide, and one and a 

 half thick. It has numerous pieces of Gorallina and 

 Nullipara, as well as several small pebbles, em- 

 bedded in its substance. It was dredged in about five 

 fathoms. 



2. MiCEOCioNA Kbntii, Bow., m, 317; PI. LXXXIX, 

 figs. 9—13. 



In Vol. Ill, p. 311, fig. 9, for "represents the type 



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