350 LITTORINID^. 



Var. 5. expaiisa. Of various colours; last whorl extended 

 and partly separated from the rest. 



Habitat : Small seaweeds (chiefly Chondrus crisptis 

 and Nitophyllum laciniatum) at low-water mark^ in the 

 Channel Isles, south and west of England, and Bristol 

 Channel; local and gregarious. Isle of Man (Forbes); 

 Filey (J. G. J.); Northumberland and Durham (Alder); 

 north, east, and west of Ireland (Turton and others); 

 west coast of Scotland (Barlee and others); Dunbar 

 (Laskey); Dunnet bay, Pentland Firth (Gordon and 

 Peach) ; Nordwick bay, Unst (Dawson) . Var. I . Exmouth 

 (Clark); Manorbeer, Pembrokeshire (J. G. J.); Scar- 

 borough (Bean); co. Antrim (Hyndman); Skye (Barlee). 

 Var. 2. Southampton (Montagu and J. G. J.). Var. 3. 

 Guernsey and the Hebrides (Barlee). Var. 4. Sark (Bar- 

 lee). Var. 5. Exmouth (Clark); Torbay (Mrs. Wyatt). 

 This species occurs in the newer pliocene, ^' Ireland " 

 (Forbes); Clyde beds (Crosskey and Robertson); Fort 

 William (J. G. J.); Norwich Crag (Woodward). Its 

 foreign distribution comprises the Scandinavian coasts, 

 from Bohuslan to Finmark (Loven, as L. Montagui, and 

 Malm); Normandy (J. G. J.); Brittany (Mace, De- 

 launay fide Tasle, and. Cailliaud); RocheUe (D^Orbigny 

 pere); Corunna and Vigo (M*^ Andrew). The variety 

 auricularis has been di'cdged in Kiel Bay by Meyer and 

 Mobius. 



]Mr. Spence Bate watched some spawn which he pro- 

 cured on the 24th of January. He could distinguish 

 the eyes on the 10th of February ; and ten days after- 

 wards the fry were fully developed, and crawled out of 

 their gelatinous covering. His note refers to L. palli- 

 dula; but the fry evidently belong to the present 

 species. 



It is the Cochlea parva of Da Costa, Helix fasciata of 



