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five fathoms, in soft mud, along with a quantity of Virgvlaria and 

 Pennatula. It proved, on examination, to be a young male, seem- 

 ingly half-grown, as the claws had not as yet attained the size cha- 

 racteristic of the adult. The nature of the ground from which the 

 specimen was taken would seem to corroborate the statement of 

 Cranch, as quoted by Bell, " that they live in the hardened mud, 

 and that their habitations, at the extremities of which they live, are 

 open at both ends." The second species above mentioned was taken 

 off the lighthouse situated on the north coast of MuU, on stony 

 ground, at a depth of about fifteen fathoms, and seemed, from its 

 small size, to be also an immature specimen. , 



A third species was also obtained, which, though by no meaus so 

 uncommon as the two preceding, seems worthy of mention. This is 

 the spinous shrimp (C/rm^/oH spinosus,'Qe)l), a specimen of which 

 was taken at the entrance to Loch 8unart, at a depth of twelve or 

 fourteen fathoms, and proved to be an adult of large size. 



No other sj^ecimens of either of these species were obtained, 

 although the various localities were carefully dredged on several 

 occasions during a month's residence in that quarter ; so that the 

 different species would seem to be by no means abundant in that 

 neighbourhood. 



As previously remarked, the two first-mentioned species do not 

 seem to have been before observed on the Scottish coast, Avhile the 

 latter seems only to have been taken in Shetland. I have therefore 

 thought that it might be of interest to mention their occurrence on 

 the west coast, more especially at a time when so much attention is 

 being directed to the elucidation of the laws governing the distribu- 

 tion of different species of marine animals. 



Spatanyus meridlonalis, Risso. 



My friend Dr. Morch of Copenhagen, who is now at Nice for his 

 health, has just given me some information which may serve to de- 

 cide the question whether the above-named species is the Spatamfus 

 Raschi of Loveu or merely the S. j^n-rjiiirens of Miiller. Dr. Morch 

 says that at my request he has examined Risso's collection, that he 

 found among the uiq)ublished drawings of that author a figure of S. 

 meridional is very like S. jJio'pureus, and that in the collection were 

 several specimens of the latter species with a label on which was 

 written " Mou Spatangus meridionalis est le Sp. purpureus, Lam." 



J. GwTN Jeffreys. 



Note on the Arrangement of the Pores or Afferent Orijices in 

 Cliona celata, Grant. By M. LfioN Vaillant. 



In the month of October last I had the opportunity, thanks 

 to the kindness of M. Lemaitre, of Cancale, of witnessing the 

 dredging of the oyster-beds for the annual inspection. This cir- 

 cumstance enabled me to observe in the living state that singular 

 sponge which perforates the shells of certain Mollusca, the CUona 



