Results of deep dredyiny off the Mull of Cantire. 19 



V. — Note of Species obtained by deep Dredyiny near Sana 

 Island, off the Mull of Cantire. By George C. Hyndman, 

 Esq., Member of the Natural History Society of Belfast*. 



When cruising about with my friend Edmund Getty, Esq., 

 in the Gannet yacht on the 19th of July 1841, the following 

 result was obtained by dredging at the depth of forty fathoms, 

 about two miles east of Sana Island. The bottom was shelly, 

 with a proportion of shell-sand. The region (i coralline/' ac- 

 cording to Mr. Forbes's definition. Dredge down three times. 



Species obtained. 



Fishes. 



Aspidophorus europaeus 



Mollusca. 



Chiton laevis 



Capulus hungaricus . . . 



Emarginula fissura 



Trochus tumidus 



millegranus ... 



Buccinum undatum 



Fusus despectus 



corneus 



Natica glaucina, Flem. . 



Montagui, Forb. 



Alderi, Forb. ... 



Rissoa communis, Forb. 

 Orthocera 



Anomia 



Nucula margaritacea . . 

 oblonga, Brown's 



Illus. 



Modiola vulgaris 



Nucula rostrata 



Anatina pubescens 



Kellia suborbicularis ... 



Mactra elliptica 



Goodallia triangularis "I 

 minutissima j 



Tellina crassa 

 Psammobia florida . 

 Cardium laevigatum. 

 Lima subauriculata . 



fragilis 

 tenera . 



Pecten sinuosus 

 obsoletus 





12 



18 

 3 



1 



12 

 160 



Observations. 



On fragment of Echinus. 

 Small and worn. 

 Small. 



Largest size, containing Pagurus Bernhardus 



One very minute. 



Invested with Actinia (Jdamsia) maculata 

 and containing Pagurus Prideauxiana. 



In shell-sand. 

 All upper valves. 



Small. 



Single valves. 



Single valves. 



Odd valve. 



Single valves, chiefly small. 

 f All dead ; two or three of each species per 



\ feet, and several odd valves. 



Single valves. 



Single valves. 



Single valves, small. 

 Nearly half an inch in length," as was a spe- 

 cimen procured by Mr. Jeffreys at Oban. 



Single valves. 



Not a single specimen with the valves united, 

 but some of them with the cartilage fresh. 

 Many worn and covered with Serpulce and 

 crustaceous zoophytes. The specimens are 

 generally large — one is 1 jinch in length. Mr. 

 Jeffreys found the species at Oban If inch. 



Single valves. 



Single valves. 



* This and the following communication were brought before the notice 

 of the British Association at the Manchester meeting by Mr. Patterson. 



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