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minated. The central mouth was trumpet-shaped, and shortly pe- 
dunculated. The circumference of the body was furnished with 
eight similar tentacula, equal to its diameter. As it differs from 
Geryonia dinema and proboscidalis , the only known species, I 
have named it G. octona. 
During the fore part of night there was little or no wind ; but 
early on the morning of the 22d, the wind began to blow from 
the SE. with rain, and continued during the whole day a stiff 
breeze, which, after we had touched at Frasersburgh, carried 
us on the morning of the 23d into Bressay Sound, Zetland. I 
mention the occurrence of this breeze from the SE., in conse- 
quence of its approach having been announced to us on the eve- 
ning of the 20th, in the Firth of Forth, on the forenoon of the 
21st at the Bell Rock, and as indicating a condition in the Na- 
tural History of winds, well known to sailors, but which has 
hitherto been in a great measure overlooked by the meteorolo- 
gist. 
On the 27th we sailed from Bressay Sound for Sumburgh 
Head, where a light-house has been recently erected. In the 
boats from the distant cod-fishing, several of the rarer deep-sea 
vermes were observed, none of which, however, were new to us 
as Zetlandic productions, except the Cymothoa oestrum . In the 
immediate neighbourhood of the boats, when the fish had been 
cleaned , the contents of their stomachs were lying on the beach. 
These consisted almost exclusively of the Asterias aculeata of 
Muller (Zool. Dan. Tab. xcix.), sparingly intermixed with the 
Asterias fragilis of the same author. The first of these species, 
A. aculeata , I had an opportunity of adding to the British 
Fauna in 1809, having procured it by dredging in Bressay 
Sound. It is. probably confined to the shores of Scotland ; at 
least it was regarded as a new British species by Col. Montagu, 
to whom I sent specimens in 1810, and who had paid particular 
attention to the tribe Stelleridae. I have likewise found it at 
Kirkcaldy in the Frith of Forth, and at St Andrew’s. The other 
species, Asterias fragilis, which is subject to some variation 
of colour, but especially of form, depending on its state of reple- 
tion, has been multiplied by Pennant, from the imperfect repre- 
sentations of Borlase, chiefly into the following species : A. sphce- 
