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It is recorded by Byerley as being found at " Hilbre 

 Island at low ebbs ; some specimens pure white, and others 

 of a deep buff colour. The white variety is plentiful on the 

 Dingle shore." 



Mr. Wood, the attendant in the aquarium at the Derby 

 Museum, Liverpool, informs me that the species still occurs 

 on the pontoons of the Liverpool landing-stage, the locality 

 recorded by Gosse in Actinologia Britannica. Fine speci- 

 mens are frequently procured by him for the tanks at the 

 museum at extreme low water-mark on the Leasowe shore, 

 opposite the embankment, on a gravelly and stony bottom, 

 the handsome semi-translucent white specimens (var. sidonea, 

 Gosse) being the most plentiful. In one of the tanks at the 

 museum there are now (December, 1885) two beautiful speci- 

 mens, found by him in this locality, with the column of a 

 rich purple-brown and the tentacles pure white; evidently 

 a form of the variety hrimnea, Gosse. 



A few large specimens, all of the white variety, have been 

 dredged during the expeditions of the Marine Biology Com- 

 mittee ; and in one of the shore excursions to Hilbre Island, 

 a large number of the flesh-coloured variety {ruhida, Gosse), 

 all, however, very young, were found studding an overhanging 

 detached piece of rock at the extreme north end of the island. 

 Professor Herdman found small specimens of this form at 

 the south end of the Isle of Man in August last. Mr. Gosse 

 (A ctinologia Britannica) records this species from Morecambe 

 Bay, his authority being Mr. F. H. West. Mr. A. 0. Walker 

 has taken the variety sidonea in Colwyn Bay ; . and Mr. 

 J. Chard has taken the species at Moelfra Bay, Anglesea. 



Heliactis bellis, Ellis and Solander (1786). 

 Sagartia bellis, Gosse and other authors. 



Recorded from Puffin Island and from the Isle of Man, by 

 Gosse, in Actinologia Britannica. We have no record of its 

 occurrence in the immediate vicinity of Liverpool. 



