CALOCARIS, 99 



Calocams Macandrei, Bell. (Plate VIII. fig. 4.) — Of 

 a very thin structure, its texture being slight and flexible. 

 When alive it is of a delicate pink or pale rose ; the whole 

 of the feet and other appendages are hairy. 



Found by Mr. M 'Andrew in Loch Fyne and the Mull 

 of Galloway; and subsequently, when dredging in the Firth 

 of Forth, in 1851, he got a quantity of haddocks, the sto- 

 mach and intestines of one of which were filled with it. He 

 found it also in the Isle of Skye and off Mull. The Rev. G. 

 Gordon (' Zoologist/ 3684) found it in the stomachs of 

 haddocks taken in the Moray Firth. Mr. Thompson had 

 got the hands in the stomach of a flat-fish off the Irish 

 coast. Professor Bell remarks that Mr. M 'Andrew and 

 the late Professor Forbes " have completely established the 

 remarkable fact, that it occasionally inhabits a depth of no 

 less than one hundred and eighty fathoms, in which situa- 

 tion it is fossorial in sandy mud. Now it is clear that at 

 such a depth, and of fossorial habits too, distinct vision 

 would be useless and unavailing ; and this at once accounts 

 for the rudimentary character of the eyes, which are entirely 

 white," 



