in their relation to fish food. Besides 
these, there were numbers of medusae, 
and larvae of various Crustacea and 
echinoderms. 
Some larger animals were got in the 
surface net by working from the pier; 
true jellyfishes and peculiar jellyfish- 
like creatures, called ‘‘etenophores, 
which possess a globular body beset 
with eight ineridional bands, each band 
bearing vibratile comb-like structures, 
the movements of which give it a 
beautiful iridescent appearance. Hound 
the pier could he seen the lame of the 
common crayfish in such quantities as 
to form clouds in the water which 
totally obscured the bottom. 
Little shore collecting was done, it 
having been exhausted on previous 
trips; but it would be well, perhaps, to 
mention that two students of the Uni¬ 
versity of Tasmania, Messrs. V. Hick¬ 
man, B.Sc., and Brettingham Moore, 
who lately visited Reidle Bay, have 
brought back some important collec¬ 
tions, including a number of shore-liv¬ 
ing Pycnogonida (“sea spiders’’) the first 
to be recorded from Tasmania. Sev¬ 
eral have previously been found in 
waters ranging from 10 to 65 fathoms. 
Wing of SPANIOPSIS TABANIFOR- 
MIS, White, a species of blood-sucking 
fly belonging to a new genus, and species 
of the family Lentida 1 , was caught at 
Freycinet’s Peninsula during the Easter 
Camp of the Tasmanian Field Natural¬ 
ists’ Club, 1914. This species was sub¬ 
sequently described by Mr. Arthur White 
in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of 
Tasmania, 1914. 
The general appearance of this fly is 
like the March-fly (Tabanidte), but very 
small, being slightly under 1 inch in 
length. 
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