NARRATIVE OF THE CRUISE. 
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“ In tlie Endoproctous division the number of species is still more limited, including 
only a species of Loxosoma not yet positively determined, and two species belonging to a 
very peculiar and interesting generic type, for which some years since I had provisionally 
adopted the name Ascopodcirici , 1 but two species of which have since been described and 
published by Mr. Hincks, one as Barentsia bulbosci , 2 and more recently a second under 
the appellation of Pedicellinopsis fruticosa , 3 the latter being one of the two species in the 
Challenger collection upon which I had proposed to found the genus Ascopodaria. 
Fig. 225. — Fa.rcimina.ria magna, Busk, a, natural size ; h, magnified ; c, ooecium, 
more highly magnified. 
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Fig. 226 . — Farciminaria gracilis , 
Busk, a, natural size ; 6, mag- 
nified. 
“ Besides these the collection contains one or more species of Rhdbdopleura ; and 
allied to that genus the very remarkable form described by Professor Mdntosh under 
the name of Cephalodiscus dodecalophusd 
“ The most important and characteristic part of the collection consists in the large 
number of deep-water or abyssal forms, comprehending under that term only the species 
1 Prof. Allman’s Presidential Address, Journ. Linn. Soc. Loncl. (Zool.), vol. xv. p. 2, 1879. 
2 Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 285, pi. xv. figs. 12-14, 1880. 
3 Ibid., vol. xiii. p. 363, pi. xiv. figs. 3-3c, 1884. 4 Ibid., vol. x. p. 337, 1882. 
(narr. chall. exp. — vol. i. — 1885.) 85 
