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to select and abridge. This lady finds troglodytes abund- 
ant on the Fife coast, in several varieties. Of these she 
specially enumerates lilacina, of which eight specimens 
have from time to time occurred ; Hesperus, two specimens, 
and a third well-marked variety. One of the var. Hesperus 
has been in Miss Gloag’s possession fifteen months : “ the 
disk and tentacles are, if possible, whiter than snow ; only 
at the extreme tip of each tentacle is it quite black. It is 
a little gem of beauty.” This variety frequently elongates 
two of its tentacles to the length of an inch ; when they 
lose their opaque white colour, and become transparent, the 
tip, however, retaining its black hue. 
The new variety is very showy : it has a bright orange 
disk, and perfectly black tentacles : thus reversing the 
colours of Eclipsis. It may be added to the catalogue, as 
var. (j). Pyromela. 
Some of my lady -readers may be glad to avail themselves 
of Miss Gloag’s experience in collecting. ‘‘ I find no diffi- 
culty in digging the troglodytes out of the rocks or mud. 
The instruments I use are long, thick hair-pins [of iron- 
wire, i\th of an ineh thiek]. I am obliged to have them 
made for the purpose ; but they are splendid, and seldom 
fail to bring out the treasure unhurt. After getting my 
fingers nearly skinned, I bethought me of hair-pins. When 
I see a troglodytes that I wish to possess, I take one of these 
strong pins in each hand, and as quickly as I can I put 
the bent ends down the fissure as close as I dare to the 
creature : when I think I have reached its base, I work 
them gently but firmly towards each other, till I feel I have 
detached the Anemone, when it is easily lifted out either 
with the fingers or with the pins.” 
More recently still, Mr. D. Kobertson has sent me from 
Cumbrae an exquisite variety, of which I was at first 
inclined to make a distinct species. It has the charac- 
