Dr. George Johnston,[[440]] the naturalist-physician of Berwick-on-Tweed, Harry Goodsir,[[441]] brother of the great anatomist, who perished with Sir John Franklin, and George Hodge[[442]] of Seaham Harbour, a young naturalist of singular promise, dead ere his prime, were in former days the chief students of the British Pycnogons. Of late, Carpenter[[443]] has studied the Irish species; and the cruises of the Porcupine, Triton, and Knight Errant have given us a number of deep-water species from the verge of the British area.
In compiling the following list, I have had the indispensable advantage of access to Canon Norman’s collection, and the still greater benefit of his own stores of endless information.[[444]]
Pseudopallene circularis, Goodsir: Firth of Forth.
Phoxichilidium femoratum, Rathke (P. globosum, Goodsir; Orithyia coccinea, Johnston) (Figs. [270], B; 286): East and West coasts, Shetland, Ireland.
Anoplodactylus virescens, Hodge (? Phoxichilidium olivaceum, Gosse): South coast.
A. petiolatus, Kr. (Figs. [270], C; 275, B; 287) (Pallene attenuata and pygmaea, Hodge; Phoxichilidium exiguum and longicolle, Dohrn): Plymouth, Firth of Forth, Cumbrae, Irish coasts.
Ammothea (Achelia) echinata, Hodge (Fig. [265], B; 274, 4; 275, E): Plymouth, Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Cumbrae, Durham (Hodge), West of Ireland. We have not found it on the East of Scotland. A. brevipes, Hodge, is presumed to be the young. Two of Dohrn’s Neapolitan species, A. fibulifera and A. franciscana, are in my opinion not to be distinguished from one another, nor from the present species.
A. hispida, Hodge (Fig. [266], C) (A. longipes, Hodge (juv); A. magnirostris, Dohrn;? Pasithoe vesiculosa, Goodsir;? Pephredo hirsuta, Goodsir): Cornwall and Devon (Hodge and Norman), Jersey. The form common on the East of Scotland would seem to be this species. The Mediterranean A. magnirostris, Dohrn, appears to be identical.
A. laevis, Hodge: Cornwall (Hodge), Devon (Norman), Jersey (Sinel).
Tanystylum orbiculare, Wilson (Clotenia conirostre, Dohrn): Donegal (Carpenter).