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SAGAIiTIAD^. 
I think it more than probable that the long deep 
Atlantic fiords of the sister island, -will, on examination, 
prove at least to equal, if they do not greatly surpass, in 
the luxuriance of their marine zoology and botany, any- 
tliing that we can boast in England. As a companion to 
the above, I gladly give an Irish picture of S. vemista, in 
situ, sketched by the graphic pen of my friend Dr. E. Per- 
cival Wright, the able and energetic Director of the Dublin 
University Museum. 
“ Last August, while entomologizing with Messrs. 
Ilaliday and Furlong in Killarney and Glengariflf, we made 
one day’s excursion down Bantry Bay — a famed spot, but, 
with all its fame, it has never been worked. Well ; the 
weather was bad, — very bad ; a thick mizzling rain soon 
•bespangled us with heavy dew-drops : however, pulled by 
four good oars, we did get on. The tide being right 
against us, it was hours ere we reached some remarkable 
caves, — the chief object of our trip. 
“ Thousands of the dark olive-green Actinia mesembry- 
anthemum lined these caves. It was not safe to try to 
land ; but in places where the sea, owing to shelter, was 
quiet, I could see the sea-floor covered with an extra- 
ordinary luxuriance of Actiniee, Sponges, &c. ; — their 
colours, and forms, of course, distorted by every ripple of 
the waves. 
“We did land for a few minutes on one spot ; and, even 
at Tenby, and under St. Catherine’s Bock, I never saw so 
much in the time; and this, though I did not wander 
from a single rock-pool. In it I saw about foiu* and twenty 
specimens of Echinus lividus, all comfortably sitting in 
arm-chairs nicely cut out of stone, and most of them of a 
lovely purple tint. Down the centre of the pool ran a 
narrow fissm’e quite choked with Bunodes crassicornis, 
which, as is their wont, had managed to gather all the 
