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curious construction, sucli as is common in these parts, tlie plan of 
whicli is said to have been introduced by the Danes. 
By 7.15 next morning we were abreast of the Skelligs, and the 
wind from the south-west was increasing. The prospect of success 
was so small, and the risk to the gear so great, owing to the rising 
seas, that the majority considered it futile to dredge ; but Mr. Green, 
with his characteristic energy and enthusiasm, ruled it otherwise, and 
the Agassiz trawl was shot. As it happened, we obtained the largest 
and most varied haul of the whole expedition. Amongst other cap- 
tures may be mentioned numerous large-lobed examples of the cup- 
like Sponge Phahellia ventilahrum ; in cavities of a smaller sponge 
nestled lovely snowy-white examples of Corynactis viridis, the rim 
of the column being girdled with a pale-green band. Other specimens 
of this variously-tinted little Actinian, more brightly coloured, were 
growing on shells, Tubularia stems, and other objects, the most strik- 
ing being a new colour variety, the column shading from yellow below 
to dark emerald-green above, with a greenish disk ; the tentacles dark 
violet, their terminal knobs being pink. Amongst other anemones were 
the magenta- spotted white Adamsia palliata, associated with Pupayurus 
prideauxii ; the pinkish-orange-coloured Gephyra dohrnii, a southern 
species we had introduced to the British fauna in our First Eeport ; 
a brilliant cherry -coloured Sagartian, perhaps a variety of the former ; 
considerable sized clumps of a cream-coloured Palythoa, and a large, 
handsome tuberculated anemone, with greenish body and white disk, 
and tentacles splashed with madder brown; the inner cycles of the 
tentacles were remarkably swollen at the base, the outer being with- 
out these basal bulbs. This fine addition to our fauna is the Chiton- 
actis richardi of Marion, from deep water in the Bay of Biscay, and is 
also closely allied to, if not absolutely identical with, a species which 
has of late years been dredged in profusion from deep water off the 
coasts of New England, and which was named Actinauye nodosa by 
Professor Yerrill ; but it is not (as Professor Yerrill believes) the same 
species as that described as Actinia nodosa by Fabricius, from Green- 
land, over one hundred years ago. Of Echinoderms we trawled an 
eleven-rayed specimen of Solaster papposa^ a Luidia sarsii, a few 
Astropecten irreyularis, large specimens of OpTiioylypJia lacertosa, large 
numbers of Ophiopholis aculeata, Ophiocoma niyra^ and Ophiothrix pen- 
taphyllum {0. fray His), several Brissopsis lyrifer^ and one Antedon 
rosaceus. Amongst other Crustacea were Cranyon vulyaris^ Pandalus 
annulicornis, JEupayurus excavatus, PJ. cuanensis (?), Gonoplax anyulatus, 
