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iai siphon, which is tinged with red. The siphons are 

 united for more than half their length, and then diverge. 

 The foot is not very large in proportion to the body. 



This species is chiefly found in the coralline region of 

 depth ; very rarely littoral. The most brilliantl}^- coloured 

 examples are dredged in about seven or eight fathoms 

 water, at Guernsey, where it is excessively abundant 

 (S. H.) ; it is, indeed, one of our most plentiful species, 

 yet in many localities scarcely a specimen is to be obtained. 

 It is rare in Dorsetshire and Devonshire (Mont.) ; it 

 has been taken at Falmouth by Mr. Jeffreys and by Mr. 

 Cocks ; in twenty fathoms near Penzance, and in fifteen 

 fathoms West Bay of Portland (M 'Andrew and E. F.) ; 

 off Poole (E. F.) ; Scarborough (Bean) ; Tenby (Lyons) ; 

 Pwllheli and Anglesea, in twelve fathoms (M'Andrew) ; 

 Isle of Man, on north and east coasts, in from fifteen to 

 twenty-five fathoms, plentiful and very varied in its 

 colours (E. F.) ; on the east coast of Scotland and north- 

 east of England it is either very rare or absent, not 

 occurring in the copious lists of either Macgillivray or 

 Alder. On the west and north, however, it is frequent ; 

 Ullapool, Loch Carron, Deal Voe, and Lerwick (Barlee 

 and Jeffreys) ; Clyde, Hebrides, and Shetland Isles, rang- 

 ing from five to thirty-five fathoms (M'Andrew) ; Ork- 

 neys (Thomas), where it is both littoral and in deep water. 



This is one of the species which were dredged by Cap- 

 tain Beechey in a submarine ravine off the Mull of Gallo- 

 way, at a depth ranging from a hundred and ten to a hun- 

 dred and forty-five fathoms (W. T. Ann. N. H. vol. x. p. 

 21). The variety Sarniensis is not confined to the Channel 

 Islands, but has been dredged likewise upon the Dublin 

 coast by Dr. Loyd, of Malahide (W. T. Ann. N. H. vol. 

 V. p. 13) ; Bantry Bay, Youghal (Jeffreys and Ball) ; 



