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The Irish Naturalist. 
September, 
Hickson, on some of the material of this group, which he is 
working out, must lead all Irish naturalists to look eagerly 
for the issue of the full paper. A Coraliid — Pleuro cor allium 
Johtsoni-^h^AS been dredged 60 miles off Achill Island in 382 
fathoms, and the family of precious corals to which it belongs 
has so far been found only in the Mediterranean, the Japanese 
seas, the Banda seas, and the southern regions of the North 
Atlantic. Another feature of very great interest is the pre- 
sence within our marine area of three representatives of the 
Antipatharia, hitherto regarded as an entirely exotic group ; 
these are Cirrhipathcs spii^alis^ Antipathella gracilis^ and a 
species of Stichopathes allied to S. Lutkeni, There are also 
examples of Ceratoisis, Stachyodes, and Kunephthya, genera 
of the Alcyonaria which Prof Hickson believes to be new to 
the Britannic fauna. 
Some "Miscellaneous Notes" of the Fisheries Branch^ 
contains three short papers each, by Mr. G. P. Farran and Mr. 
W. M. Tattersall. In a supplement to his list of Nudibranchs 
from Ballynakill Harbour, Mr. Farran adds Staurodoris 
verrucosa (Cuv.) to the Britannic, and Styliger bellula (d'Orb.) 
to the Irish marine fauna. He further records the rediscovery 
in numbers, at the oyster ponds, Ardfry, Co. Galway, of 
Aldcria modesia (Loven); a nudibranch found in 1846 by 
Allman near Skibbereen, and the occurrence off our west 
coast of large colonies of the floating barnacle, Lepas 
fascicidaris (Ellis and Sol.). 
Two of Mr. Tattersall's notes refer to Crustacea. Of these 
one is on Stomatopod I^arvse, which occur in numbers from 
the middle of August until the end of October in the pelagic 
fauna of our western coast.s, while no adult member of the 
"order has yet been found in the Irish area. The second note 
is on the occurrence oi an interesting L/eptostracan — Nebalia 
typhlops, G. O. Sars~in deep water (120-200 fms.) west of 
Counties Mayo and Galway. This is an addition to the 
Britannic fauna, as the species had hitherto been known only 
from the Norwegian and Mediterranean regions. 
Mr. Tattersall's third note is on the adult Knteropneust, 
which was obtained by digging in sand, at low-water, off 
Coastguard Point, Ballynakill Harbour. Hitherto no adult 
1 Ann. Rep. Fish., Ireland, 19Q2-03, pt. ii. App. vii. [190 .] 
