SPONGIIDA. 
8 Spong. 
and East side of Yucatan Bank (p. 4) ; of the two latter, the one also off 
Cuba, the other olf Bahia Honda : A. Agassiz, in Bull. Mus. C. Z. v. p, 1. 
Oalcarea. 
Teichonellidce^ Carter, (2) new family to include Teichonellcif g. n., 
characterized by vallate arrangement of body. 
Grantia compressa^ (H), pl- vi. figs. 1-13, 15, & 18. Development 
figured. 
Grantia compressa^ (10), pi. iii. figs. 29-31 ; shows pseudopodia and 
Acinetoid stage. Sycon cilia turn, id., pi. iii. figs. 27 & 28, free gemmule 
showing exterior collar cells. 
Leucosolenia botryoides, (10), pi. iii. fig. 34, shows “ sporocyst ” and free 
spores. 
Leucosolenia hotryoideSy (11), pi. vii, figs. 19-21. Development of 
interspicular groups of collar- cells from internally-produced spores is 
inferred. 
Ascetta coriacea, Mont., Sycaltis glacialis, Hack., Sycandra utriculuSy 
Schmidt, (12) pp. 371 & 372, off Novaia Zemlia. 
New Genera and Species. 
Carnosa. 
Halisarca frantzschaltzei, also cited as schultzei, Mereschkowsky (14), 
p. 27, pi. i. figs. 1-6, pi. ii. figs. 9-14, pi. iii. fig. 40, White Sea. 
Ceratina and Psammonemata. 
Aplysilla, F. E. Schultze (16), p. 404. Oscular tubes smooth, short, and 
generally single ; fibres branch, but form no network ; dicBcious. Agrees 
with Aplysina generally in other respects. A . sulfurea, F. E. Sch,, 1. c. 
p. 405, pi. xxiii. figs. 15, 18-27, pi. xxiv. ; A. rosea, F. E. Sch., 1. c. p. 416, 
pi. xxiii. figs. 16 & 17. 
Aplysina capensis, Carter (3), p. 171. Previously mentioned in Ann. 
N. H. (4) xvi. p. 192, Algoa Bay. 
Aplysina pedicellata, Hyatt, P. Ac. Philad. 1878, p. 163, pi. i., pro- 
bably from West Indies. 
Simplicella (= Aplysilla) glacialis, Mereschkowsky (14), p. 43, White 
Sea. 
Cacospongia schmidti, Marenzeller (12), p. 362, pi. i. fig. 1, Novaia 
Zemlia. Described by 0. Schmidt in Die zweite deutsch. Nordpol-fahrt, 
ii. p. 430, without name. 
Spongelia spinifera, F.E. Schultze (18), p. 152, pi. vi. figs. 8 & 9, Lesina. 
Note. — The second reference to Ceratella lahyrinthica, Hyatt, Mem. 
Bost. Soc. ii. p. 551, pi. xvii. fig. 30, Mauritius, was omitted from the Zool. 
Bee. for 1877 by a mechanical error. 
Khaphidonemata. 
Chalinula cavernosa, Marenzeller (12), p. 364, pi. ii. fig. 1, Novaia 
Zemlia. 
Cacochalina irregularis, Czerniavsky (5), p. 395, not described, Black 
and Caspian Sea fauna. 
HOLORRHAPHI DOTA. 
Reniera litoralis, Keller (9), p. 579, Ligurian coast. 
Reniera nigricans, Czerniavsky (5), p. 394, Black or Caspian Sea. 
