tg6 
The Irish NaturalisL August-September, 
Ballinakill, the animal as it Jioatcd on the water surfaee 
being coiled into a close ring with the papillae extended 
radially so as to simulate an Actinia. 
Lomanotus marmoratus (Aid. & Hanc). 
L. Gcnei Verany. L. portlandicus Thompson ; L. Hancocki 
Norman ; L. flavidus, Aid & Hanc. 
Not infrequent in dredgings in from lo to i8f. One 
large specimen 45 mm. long and translucent rosy orange 
in colour dredged in lof. off Bullock in October, 1906 : 
Colgan, 'oya. Twice dredged off Church Island, Skerries, 
four specimens, ranging from 4 to 12 mm. in length, in 
I3f., August, 191 1, and seven others, one 6 mm. long, 
the others ranging from 1-5 to 2-5 mm. on Antennularia 
in I4f. July, 1912 ; N.C. One specimen, a mile south- 
east of Ireland's Eye, i3-i8f., 1902, and another in i4-i6f. 
two miles off Dalkey, 1903 : Farran, '09 (as L. portlandicus). 
In addition to the two last -mentioned stations, Mr. 
Farran has dredged a large Lomanotus which he refers 
to L. portlandicus no less than nine times in the Irish vSea 
outside of the Dublin three-mile limit, and chiefly in or 
about Lambay Deep. Some 20 specimens ranging up to 
33 mm. in length and usually of a whitish colour suffused 
with orange red were taken between 1902 and 1907 at 
depths ranging from 20 to fully 48f. (Farran '09.) 
Although a good deal of attention has been given of 
late to the interesting genus Lomanotus, opinion is still 
much divided as to the number of species to be admitted. 
Large and small forms which differ markedly in coloration 
without offering any constant satisfactory distinctions in 
form or structure occur not infrequently within the Britannic 
marine area, and it has been suggested that the small 
forms, which in general aspect fall under either L. mar- 
moratus or L. flavidus, should be regarded as immature 
states of the larger forms which are usually assigned to 
L. Genei, equated with L. portlandicus and L, Hancocki 
A recent authority, W. Garstang, reduces all six European 
species of the genus to one, fusing with the five species 
