112 THE MOLLUSCA OF THE FIRTH OF CLYDE. 
off Shelibole, Cumbrae, and have occasionally seen it brought 
ashore in trawl refuse by fishermen. Mr. Barker, Curator 
of the Rothesay Aquarium, states that fine specimens are 
obtained in Rothesay Bay. The mild intelligent aspect of 
its cow-like eyes is very remarkable, and redeems to some 
extent the appearance of an animal usually described as 
repulsive. 
British distribution—More or less common on all the 
Scotch coasts and north-eastern England, becoming less 
plentiful in the south and south-west. 
Foreign localities—Norway and Sweden (Loven, and 
others). It is erroneously recorded from the Mediterranean 
and Atgean Seas by Forbes. 
