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paila stelligera, Schmidt, is only a superfluous synonym 
for Raspailia stuposa, Montagu. 
There are, as mentioned above, two species of faspailia 
with stellate microscleres, R. stwposa, M., and R. rigida, 
M. In my former report I drew attention to Ridley and 
Dendy’s statement that the only stellate forms of micro- 
scleres ‘“‘ which are certainly known to occur in the Mon- 
axonida”’ are spirule, discastra and amphiastra,’ and I 
proposed that spherasters should be mentioned as a fourth 
form of stellate microscleres in the Monaxonida, and that 
the limits of the genus Raspailia, as given by Ridley and 
Dendy, should be enlarged by leaving out the negative 
character ‘‘no microsclera,’ so as to reconstitute the 
older and wider genus defined by Nardo and Schmidt. I 
see now that Lendenfeld’s definitions of the group in ques- 
tion also want alterations. In his ‘“ Descriptive Cata- 
logue”’* the definition of the order ‘‘ Cornacuspongie,” 
which comprises also the Axinellidz, is too narrow, as it 
gives the negative character ‘* Microsclera, never stellate.” 
This character should be left out. Similarly in the ‘‘ Mono- 
erapht’’ Lendenfeld defines his sub-family ‘‘ Axinelline,” 
which includes Raspailia, as ‘‘ Axinellide without micro- 
sclera.”’ ‘This definition also wants correction. 
This species which has now been found on the shores 
of Puffin Island several times, has also been dredged on 
the ‘‘ Elyeena”’ expedition of May 25th, 1890, in Penrhos 
Bay, west coast of Anglesey, from a depth of about 10 
fathoms, 
Suberites domuncula, Nardo. 
Halichondria suberea, Montagu. 
Johnston { describes this sponge under the name Halz- 
* R. v. Lendenfeld,‘‘ Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Aus- 
tralian Museum, Sydney,” p. 74. 
+ R. v. Lendenfeld, ‘‘ A Monograph of the Horny Sponges,” p. 903. 
+ Johnston, ‘‘ British Sponges,” p. 140. 
