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1833,—and this is the first record of its capture on the Irish coasts. 
In its recent state it presents a beautiful appearance. The pecu¬ 
liarity of its projecting snout, its oval and compressed body, shaded 
on the back with a rich brownish carmine, of a brighter and more red¬ 
dish colour on the sides, and silvery towards the abdomen; the body 
hispid, covered with minute and rough scales, beautifully ciliated on the 
margin; the mouth with very minute teeth, and very protractile, similar 
to the Doreeeyes very large, pupil a dark plum colour, the irides a 
rich pink ; the first dorsal very strong and spinous, as also the ventrals; 
the membranous and emarginate rays of the dorsal of a yellowish tinge; 
pre-operculum finely serrated. About six and a quarter inches in length 
from the snout to the extremity of the caudal fin, and the body in depth 
three inches; the dorsal-fin rays are continuous, the first having very 
strong spines. 
It is allied to the Zeinae, or Dories, and is evidently a ground-feeding 
fish, and a deep-water species. Like the Doree, its mouth is protractile, 
and capable of much expansion, favouring the capture of soft and minute 
animals that may float in its way ; for, like the Equuleus, a noted little 
fish of the Indian Ocean, it can suddenly form a tube-like projection of 
its mouth. Its eyes, which are brilliant, are very large for the size of 
the fish, and are such as seem peculiar to fishes feeding at considerable 
depths, and which are seen in the genera Platysomus and Blepharis, of 
the same sub-family. 
Peoeessoe J. Eeay Gbeene then brought forward the following— 
ADDITIONS TO THE IEISH EAUNA. 
The first of these was an apparently new species of Brittle-Star, allied to 
the Ophiocoma neglecta of Porbes, from which species it differed in the 
shape and convexity of its disk, which presented, moreover, a cleft and 
emarginate appearance opposite the insertion of each of the rays; in 
the pair of heart-shaped plates, situated within the margin of the disk, 
by which the rays were subtended; in the shape of the upper ray plates, 
which were of a somewhat transversely ovate form; in the number of 
spines (three or four on each side), with which the lateral ray plates 
were provided; and lastly, in the relative proportion (1:4) between 
diameter of the disk and the length of the rays. For this Brittle-Star he 
would suggest the name of Amphiura Leachii. 
The second addition which he wished to record was a species of 
sea-anemone, the Bunodes gemmacea of Gosse, hitherto unknown on the 
Irish coast, though extremely abundant on the shores of Devonshire and 
other parts of England. On the outside of Cork Harbour it seemed to be 
equally common. 
Another species of Bunodes, which he supposed to be new, had like¬ 
wise occurred to him, as also a peculiar form of Lucernaria {vide “ Pro¬ 
ceedings of the Dublin University Zoological and Botanical Association,” 
March 19, 1838). 
