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Dr. G. C. Wallich m Reply to 



and wholly destitute of sculpture, were found in soundings 

 taken by Capt. Spratt off the coast of Crete. Diam. -^ inch. 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 



Plate VII. 



;>x4o. 



Fig. 1. Cffthere porcellanea, seen from left side. 



Fig. 2. The same, seen from above. 



Fig. 3. The same, from below. 



Fig. 4. The same, from the front. 



Fig. 5. Cgthe7-e fuscata, seen from the left side. 



Fig. 6. The same, seen from above. 



Fig. 7. The same, from below. 



Fig. 8. The same, from the front. 



Fig. 9. Cythere Stitnpsoni, seen from the left side. 



Fig. 10. The same, from above. 



Fig. 11. The same, from below. 



Fig. 12. The same, from the front. 



Fig. 13. Ci/there aj^nis, seen from the left side. 



Fig. 14. The same, seen from above. J 



Fig. 15. Poly cope, sp., seen from the side. (. y pq 



Fig. 16. The same, end view. \ 



Plate VIII. 



Fig. 1. Cytheropteron acutum, seen from the left side. "^ 



Fig. 2. The same, seen from above. 



Fig. 3. The same, seen from below. 



Fig. 4. The same, seen from the front. 



Fig. 5. Cytherideis teres, seen from the left side 



Fig, 6. The same, seen from below. *- v 40 



Fig. 7. Pontocypris obtmata, seen from the left side. *" 



Fig. 8. The same, seen from above. 



Fig. 9. Loxocmicha tamarindiis (?), seen from the left side. 



Fig. 10. The same, seen fi-om above. 



Fig. 11, Loxoconcha tumida, seen from the left side. 



Fig. 12. The same, seen from above. 



Fig, 13. Cytherurajlavescens, seen from the left side. | 



Fig. 14. The same, from above, > X 60. 



Fig. 16. The same, seen from the front. | 



Fig. 16, Loxoconcha angustata, seen fi'om the left side. ( ^ ^q 



Fig. 17, The same, seen from above. j 



XII. — Reply to Dr. E. P. WrigMs Observations on Dredging. 



To the Editors of tlie Annals mul Magazine of Natural History. 



Gentlemen, 



The remarks of Dr. Wright, in this month's Number of the 

 ' Annals,' on what lie is pleased to term the " accidental " dis- 

 covery by me of starfishes normally living in the deeper 

 abysses of the ocean, arc so far incorrect that I must beg to 

 be permitted to reply to them. 



