160 Notes on a Dredging Excursion off the Coast of Durham. 



tarsal joints equal in length with minute tufts of hairs. Length 

 If inch. 



Hab. Philippine Islands. One specimen in the British Museum, 

 from the collection of Mr. Cuming. 



6. Atya pilipeSf Newp. 



Body smooth; rostrum simple, triangular, very short, with a 

 slight median ridge ; fourth and fifth pairs of legs nearly equal ; 

 femoral joint with an oblique sulcus on the external surface, 

 fringed with a margin of dense fine hairs. Length 1^ inch. 



Hab. Apia, Upoln, New Zealand. One specimen in the Bri- 

 tish Museum cabinet. I have been unable to derive characters 

 for this species from the third pair of legs, both these being 

 absent. 



XX. — Notes on a Dredging Excursion off the coast of Durham ; 

 with descriptions of the Ova-Capsules of Fusus Norvegicus and 

 F. Turtoni. By Mr. Richard Howse. 



[With a Plate.] 



On the 29th of last June I sailed from Staithes, a fishing hamlet 

 on the Yorkshire coast, in one of the fishing luggers which du- 

 ring the summer months visit the inner or western edge of the 

 Dogger-bank. I made this marine excursion for the purpose of 

 examining the Invertebrata of that much-frequented fishing- 

 ground, and therefore went prepared with a dredge and the other 

 necessary apparatus for collecting. 



Unfortunately the weather was most unfavourable, the wind 

 blowing a gale from the west. We were driven about from Mon- 

 day, the day on which we sailed, till Wednesday morning without 

 being able to use the dredge ; during the latter day, however, 

 we had three hauls with it, but had no other opportunity of put- 

 ting it down. The wind freshening towards evening we were 

 obliged to leave ofi" dredging, and on the following morning steered 

 for the shore, which we reached in the afternoon. 



The little dredging we had was in sixty fathoms water, on a 

 fine, gray, sandy bottom, about fifty miles east of the coast of 

 Durham, and about the same distance from the western edge 

 of the Bank. The result, though small, was more satisfactory 

 than under such unfavourable circumstances I had any reason to 

 expect. 



The following moUusks were taken : a few specimens each of 

 Fusus antiquus and F. Islandicus ; a beautiful specimen nearly an 

 inch in length of Fusus Barvicensis ; one of F. ? lineatus ; speci- 



