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The two Ctenophores, Pleurohrachia pileus (Fab.), and Be7ve 

 ciccumis, Fab. {^ovata of our lists), I have occasionally met 

 with in abundance in the sea near Gullane, etc. Dalyell 

 took a specimen of Bero'e pileus'' at Queensferry in 1819, 

 and had 4, from Forbes, from the coast of Fife.^ Leslie and 

 Herdman give no earlier record for this than that of the 

 German ISTorth Sea Expedition of 1872. No Siphonophora 

 have been recorded from the Firth of Forth, nor should we 

 expect any to occur. 



In connection with our Anthozoa, mention should be made 

 of the famous sea-anemone " Grannie," which died on 4tli 

 August 1887, at the advanced age of 66 (see paper " On 

 the Duration of Life in Coelenterates," by Ashworth and 

 Annandale, in Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin., 1904, xxv. p. 295). 



The following are the recorded additions to Leslie and 

 Herdman's list — I give the names exactly as published : — 



CcELENTERATA ; Sertulavia fusca, Johnst. (J. R. Henderson, 

 Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc, viii. p. 115), *S'. tenella, Aid. {id., p. 309), 

 Coryne van henedenii, Hincks [id., p. 308), Heterocordyle cony- 

 hear ei, A 11m. {id., p. -308, and Pearcey, Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 Glasgow, 1900-1901, p. 244), Campanidaria hincksii, Aid. 

 (Henderson, I.e., p. 308), Halecium sp. {id.), Diphasia pinaster, 

 Ell. and Sol. (Pearcey, I.e., pp. 241, 244), Holiclystus auricula, 

 Fab. (Evans, see p. 15), Rhizostoma sp, (Pearcey, I.e., p. 244), 

 Bunodes coronata, Penn. {id., pp. 231, 233), Cerianthus lloydii, 

 Gosse (Scott, 10th, 1891, Fish. Bd. Rept., pt. iii., p. 'J 66). 



Ctenophora ; Dalyell's Beroe bilobata{1 = B. infundihulvm. Fab.) 

 probably came from the Firth of Forth (of. Rare and Remarkable 

 Animals of Scotland, ii. p. 254). ^ Cydippe pomiformis, Patt., 

 recorded from the Forth by Forbes and J. Goodsir (Brit. Assoc. 

 Rpt.for 1839), and by Pearcey {I.e., pp. 228, 231) is now regarded 

 as a synonym of Pleurohrachia pileus (Fab.), to which, doubtless, 

 should also be referred the "small variet}^ of Cydippe, dis- 

 tinguished by the rufous colour which tinged the bases of the 

 tentacular cirri," recorded by Wright in our Proceedings (i. p. 169) 

 as swarming in the Firth in June 1856. Prof. J. Arthur Thomson, 

 in an article in Pollock's Dictionary of the Forth, 1891 (p. 156), 

 alludes to swarms of Beroe cucumis, no doubt the same species as 

 Leslie and Herdman, Pearcey {I.e., p. 228), and others have 

 recorded under the specific name ovata.^ 



^ Hare and RemarTcahle Animals of Scotland, ii. (1848), p. 257; and 

 Fleming's British Animals (1828), p. 504. 



■■^ Since this paper was read, Bolina infundibuhim (Fab.), and some 

 interesting Hydro medusae — including jEquorea — have been recorded from 

 the Firth by Dr Ashworth and myself ; see our paper farther on in this vol. 

 An j^quorea, probably from the Forth, was described by "V\"right in vol. ii., 

 p. 316. 



^ For synonymy of the Ctenophora, cf. Chun, Die Ctenophoren der Plankton 

 Expedition, 1898. 



