On Spines and Plates of a Sjnapta. 365 
Falmouth. It appears to range to the Mediterranean, and 
has been found in several other foreign stations. 
2. Synapta inhcerens, 0. F. Miiller. First found at Chris- 
tiansand, Norway, and described in the " Zoologica Danica " 
1781. Mr Henslow first got it at Aberystwith and Cric- 
cieth, in North Wales, and communicated it to Dr Leach 
in 1819, who named it Jemania Hensloimnii. It was also 
got in the latter locality, by Mr J. W. Wilton, in 1856. In 
February 1856, Mr E. 0. Buckland got it in Lihon Bay, 
Guernsey. A microscopic preparation of the skin of this 
specimen shows 150 anchors in the field of the one-inch 
object-glass." Mr Cocks got at Falmouth. Mr M' Andrew 
in Bantry Bay, in August 1857. So far for the above 
paper. 
3. Synapta OalUeni vel Sarniensis. At the meeting of 
the British Association in Bath, in 1864, Dr Herapath 
described a species got in Bellegrave Bay, Guernsey, by M. 
Galliene, and has fully described and figured it in the 
" Quarterly Journal of the Microscopical Society" for 1865, 
new series. This has also been taken by Dr M'Intosh at 
North Uist, in the Hebrides. 
4. Dr Herapath mentions, in his paper, one taken by Pro- 
fessor Wyville Thomson in Ireland, and wishes it to be 
named Synapta Thomsonii. 
5. Synapta Bushei, M'Intosh. Found by Dr M'Intosh in 
Lochmaddy, North Uist, Outer Hebrides, and described by 
him in the "Proceedings of the Eoyal Society of Edinburgh," 
; vol. V. (1862-65), p. 612, fig. 6. 
Thus, then, although many others have been found in 
other parts of the world, at present only five species have 
been found on the British coasts ; and although few, their 
pines, &c., make such beautiful microscopic objects, they 
re well worth searching for. 
I must here express my best thanks to Dr Wm. Carpenter, 
or the use of Woodward and Barrett's paper, and to Dr J. 
. Smith, for the " Proceedings of the Eoyal Society of 
dinburgh." For Dr Herapath's paper I am indebted 
0 the University Library authorities. 
