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of Ireland, It appears to be pretty mucli a littoral species, 

 occurring, according to both Dr. Leach and Mr. Oouch, 

 under stones at low tide. I have, however, taken it by the 

 dredge in Swanage Bay, Dorsetshire, and in lobster-pots at 

 Bognor, and Mr. Thompson mentions its being dredged by 

 him in Ireland. This would intimate that they resort to 

 deeper water occasionally, and Dr. Leach particularly men- 

 tions that such is the case when they are young. Those, 

 however, which I procured in lobster-pots on the coast of 

 Sussex were adult and remarkably large. 



The vignette below is from a picture by Orome of Nor- 

 wich, in the possession of Walter Buchanan, Esq. 



