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a long colourless capitulum, short conical pink tentacles, witli a 
madder ring near their base : it will be known as Paraphellia greenii, 
so called after our colleague, the E-ev. "W. S. Green. This species, 
and the new species of Edwardsia {E. tecta), with other Actiniae, will 
be described in the forthcoming ''Revision of the British Actiniae," 
Part I., Trans. E. D. Soc, 1888. 
All day the wind had been rising, the sky was overcast, and the 
sea was becoming more and more agitated. By 3.30 p.m. the weather 
was so "dirty" that it was decided to put on "full steam," and, if 
possible, to make Valentia before nightfall. With oil-skins donned, 
all hands were busy stowing the gear, arranging the fishing-lines, 
sifting and washing the dredged-up sand, bagging the latter, and pre- 
serving specimens and writing their appropriate labels, ignoring the 
pitching of the steamer and the driving of the rain. 
At 8.45 P.M. we were, by the log, still 8 miles west of the Skel- 
ligs, and the fog was denser. All hope of making Valentia Harbour 
that night being over, we had to spend the night beating about the 
mouth of Dingle Bay, and it was not till 9 o'clock the next morning 
that the fog began even partially to lift, and at 10 a.m. on Sunday 
morning we steamed into Yalentia Harbour. 
The Eev. A. Delap brought out to us a basket-full of letters and 
papers. In the afternoon we were warmly welcomed at the Parson- 
age, and gained much information concerning the Pauna and Plora of 
the Island and Coasts of Yalentia — the whole family being much 
interested in local natural history. 
On Monday morning, after receiving an early visit from the Delap 
family, and showing them our method of working, we put down the 
trawl on a sandy bottom and brought up a large quantity of sea- weed, 
and but little else ; a fragment of Eurynome aspera, and one or two 
common Crustacea were obtained. IS'ext we visited the picturesque 
islands of the Blaskets, and again crossing Dingle Bay we made for 
Ballinaskellig Bay, where we dredged and trawled ; but the wind 
was too fresh all day to dredge successfully. In the evening we 
landed the Eev. A. Delap, junior, who had spent the day with us, 
and the most part of the party were very hospitably entertained by 
Mr. Butler of Waterville, who also made us an acceptable present of 
a salmon and some fine pink trout from his salmon-weir. The latter 
is situated on the stream which flows from Lough Currane to the bay, 
and this very weir is known, by documents in the possession of Mr. 
Butler, to have existed in the reign of King John. The weir is of 
