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Goniodoru nodosa, Montagu. This species is still pro- 
bably as abundant as in the time of Alder and Hancock, for 
it is quite common to tind in April and May as many as 
forty specimens under the large rocks immediately to the 
south of Brown’s Well, Cullercoats. It is not as common 
in other months. Also to be found at St. Mary’s Island 
but not in great numbers. 
Antiopella cristata (Delle Chiaje). Described by Alder 
and Hancock as a southern form reaching its northern limit 
on the south western shores of our island has been obtained, 
October, 1910, from Blyth Harbour, where it was living 
amongst Laminaria on the bottom of the “ Tyne,” an old 
yaclit used as a club-house by the Xorthumberland A^achting 
Club. 
^flolidia papillosa, L. The commonest ^Eolid of the 
district is most abundant under small stones on the Cork- 
■screw Bocks, Whitley, and it fre(iuents the cracks in the 
shale of the same rocks in large numbers. It occurs in 
smaller numbers to the north of Cullercoats Bay. The 
earliest date when spawning was observed was on Gth March, 
1909. 
Tlermea dead rdiea , A and H. Six examples of this 
species, nut previously recorded for Xorthumberland, were 
found living in one of the tanks in the Laboratory on 24th 
dune. 1911. 
