280 EGIDA. 
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in our figure. Dr. Leach, however, in his description, 
says, ‘ extremité presque tronquée, échancrée.” 
The species inhabits the Mediterranean, and is also 
found not unfrequently on our coasts. 
Specimens from St. Leonards are in the Hopeian 
collection at Oxford. We have also obtained it by 
trawling in Plymouth Harbour at the beginning of 
February, and have received it from the Rev. A. M. 
Norman, who has taken it on the coast of Durham. 
The Oxford Museum also possesses a small specimen 
labelled as having been taken at Plymouth, which was 
considered by Mr. Hope as a distinct species (the MS. 
name of ‘*Spilota, Hope,” in the handwriting of the 
donor himself, being attached to it), it being dotted all 
over with small brown spots, arranged at equal distances 
apart, so that there are about a dozen occurring next the 
posterior margin of each segment. 
