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ZOOPHYTES. 
Ballywalter. Examples precisely similar to the latter are on Algae in my 
collection, from Van Diemen’s Land. Our species of Tubulipora are so 
widely diffused over the seas of the globe, and have met with such atten- 
tion from naturalists, that I cannot believe this form to be peculiar to our 
latitudes, or to have hitherto escaped detection. I cannot however refer 
it with certainty to any species. - It may be the Tubiporajlabellaris of the 
Fauna Grcenlandica, p. 430, but the inapplicability of the word “ parallels ” 
to the tubes renders this doubtful. Risso’s brief description of Discopora 
palmata, t. v. p. 339, applies tolerably to it. The chief difference between 
T. plumosa and T. serpens when adherent to an expanded surface is, that 
the former emanates generally from a single stem or tube, is broadly 
plumose, has the tubes curved and much elongated, and not disposed more 
or less in the regular series in which they appear in T. serpens. See 
figures for those differences. Occasional departures, however, from the 
typical form of T. plumosa suggest the possibility of its being another of 
the Protean forms of T. serpens. How happy this trivial name, in the 
poetical sense at least, of the serpent assuming a variety of forms ! W. T. 
Genus Alecto. 
A. granulata, Edw. 
Found attached to stones and shells brought up from deep water in 
Belfast Bay, &c. 
A. major , Johnst. 
Adherent to old bivalve shells dredged outside the entrance of Belfast 
Bay, from the depth of 25 to 35 fathoms, in July, 1848, and sent to me 
by Mr. Hyndman. 
A. dilatans, J ohnst. 
With last. I had previously noted this species or form — for I do not 
feel altogether satisfied respecting the specific distinctness of A. major and 
A. dilatans — as observed with other deep-water Zoophytes on a stone 
dredged from 40 fathoms off Whitehead, County of Antrim. Its three 
branches render this specimen more elegant than any of those figured by 
Johnston. 
Genus Eucratea. 
E. chelata, Lamx. 
Dr. Johnston (Brit. Zoop.) notes this as Templeton’s “ Lorieula 
loricata,” by which name I have no doubt that Notamia loriculata (not 
otherwise given in Templeton’s catalogue) was meant. Although I have 
thought it proper to allude to this, it is hardly worth correction, as Tem- 
pleton’s remark of “ common on the coast of Ireland ” applies equally to 
E. chelata as to N. loriculata. 
Down and Antrim coasts, chiefly on other Zoophytes, sometimes on 
Algae, 1835, W. T. Magilligan, on various Zoophytes, Mr. Hyndman. 
Dublin Bay and Youghal, on -S', argentea, &c., Miss Ball. Clifden, 
Connemara, W. T. Glendore, Co. Cork, Prof. Allman. Ballysodare 
Bay, Co. Sligo, Mrs. Hancock. 
Genus Notamia. 
N. loriculata , Flem. 
Common on the North and East coasts of Ireland, and of a much 
larger size than the maximum — 4 inches — given in Brit. Zoop., W. T. 
