TWO, NEW SPECIES OF THE PHORONIDEA. 
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probably to be accounted for as in Ph. vancouverensis 
by the lateness of the season. The ovaries are in Phoro- 
nopsis more full of ova, though botb were collected in Sep- 
tember. Specimens with a lophophoral organ can easily be 
distinguished by the greater width of the tentacular crown. 
Text-fio. 13. 
Transvei-se section tlirongli the cesophageal region showing the high 
2'innate fascicles of longitudinal muscles. ( X (JU.) 
Bod}’ - wal 1 . — The epidermis (Fig. 12) agrees with that des- 
cribed for Ph. vancouverensis, and the excretory pigment 
is here again very noticeable. The same remarks apply to it 
as given for the former species. 
The basement tissue (Figs. 9, 10, 11,. h t.) has here nume- 
rous small cells embedded in the clear matri.x similar to that 
described by Benham (2) for Ph. australis. 
