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was no doubt Phascolion {Phascolosoma) strombi (Mont.). 

 I have myself occasionally found tooth-shells on the 

 beech at N"orth Berwick that had been so tenanted. 

 Leslie and Herdman cite only three records of Gephyrea in 

 their Catalogue, namely, Phascolosoma strombi (Mont.), Ph. 

 procerum, Mob. — both obtained near the Bass Eock by the 

 German North Sea Expedition — and the old one of Priapulus 

 caudatus from Leith. Dr Scott has added Echiurus oxyurus, 

 Pall. { = E. pallasii, Guer.), and given a fresh record for the 

 Priapulus, from stomachs of fishes taken in the Forth.^ 

 More recently, Pearcey {I.e.) reports another addition, namely, 

 Phascolosoma vulgar e (Mont.) [Blainv. ?] — one from west of 

 the Isle of May in 20 to 30 fathoms — and a further occur- 

 rence of Ph. stromhi.^ One wonders whether Golfingia 

 maeintoshii, Lank., the type of which was got off Montrose, 

 might not be found in the outer waters of the Firth. 



PHOEOOTS. 



In 1856 Dr Strethill Wright described in our Proceedings^ 

 two "Tubicolar Animals," to which he gave the names of 

 Phoronis hippocrepia and Ph. ovalis respectively. Three 

 examples of the first were found on a stone to which a 

 lithophyte was attached, received from Ilfracombe, Devon, 

 and a colony of the second occurred in a decayed oyster 

 shell, the habitation also of a sponge [Cliona celata), dredged 

 from the Firth of Forth, near Inchkeith. Phoronis ovalis, 

 Wright, is regarded by some as probably only a young form of 

 Ph. hippocrepia, Wright, but for the present it must, it seems 

 to me, be treated as distinct. The genus, of which only 12 

 species are known,^ is an isolated and highly interesting 

 one, whose systematic position is still uncertain. I am not 

 aware of any further record of this remarkable animal from 

 our waters, but the larval form (Actinotrocha) of a Phoronis 

 was captured in the Forth by Dr Cobbold,^ and has occasion- 

 ally been taken in the tow-net off Dunbar (Jide Ashworth). 



^ 9th. Hep. (for 1890) Fish. Bd. Scot., pt. iii. p. 332. 



^ Pearcey also records Sipunculus lernhardus ? In reference to tin is, it may b 

 pointed out that S. hernhardus, Forbes = S. stromhi, Mont. + S. dentalii, Gray. 

 3 Vol. i. pp. 165-167; also Edin. New Phil. Jour., iv. (1856) p. 313. 



Cf. De Selys-Longchamps in Monog. 30, F. u. F. d. Golfesv. Neajpel, 1907. 

 s Gf. M'Intosh, 1th F. B. Bpt., pt. iii. p. 285. 



