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Habitat. — Dredged near the Tan Buoy, Cumbrae, 

 in 5 fathoms, bottom Melobesia. The animal was 

 reddish - brown and very quick in its movements, 

 although at times, when undisturbed, it walked 

 leisurely on the bottom of the vessel. 



Taken in 92 fathoms, bottom mud, Loch Fyne. It 

 has also been taken in the Moray Firth, by the 

 Rev. G. Gordon ; at Polperro, Cornwall ; in Ply- 

 mouth Sound, by S. Bate and Westwood ; on the 

 Devonshire coast, by Montagu ; and on the south 

 coast of Sweden, by Lilljeborg. 



Genus Gossea, Spence Bate. 



gossea microdeutopa, Spence Bate. 



Gossea microdeutopa, Spence Bate, Cat. Amph. 

 Brit. Mus., p. 160, pi. xxix., fig. 6. 



Habitat. — Taken in the dip-net at the margin of 

 low- water, amongst algae, moderately common ; and 

 in the surface-net after sunset, Cumbrae. This 

 species was first taken at Ilfracombe by Mr. Gosse, 

 whose name it bears ; and it has also been taken 

 in the Shetlands by the Rev. A. M. Norman. 



Genus A o R A , Kroyer. 

 AORA gracilis, Spence Bate. 



Lonchomerus gracilis, Spence Bate, Rep. Brit. 

 Assoc, 1855. 



Lalaria gracilis, Spence Bate, Ann. Nat. Hist., 

 2nd Ser., xx. (1858), p. 525. 



Aora gracilis, Spence Bate, Cat. Amphip. Brit. Mus., 

 p. 160, pi. xxix., f. 7. 



Habitat. — Dredged at the Clach Rock, 7 fathoms, 

 bottom muddy gravel and small algae ; at the Tan 

 Buoy, in 6 to 7 fathoms, bottom Melobesia and 

 clumps of Laminaria saccharina ; between the 

 Allans, Cumbrae, in 2 to 3 fathoms, muddy sand 

 and sea-weed ; and off the Holy Isle, Arran, in 5 

 fathoms, among sea-weeds. 



