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and beg to record its occurrence in another locality on our southern 

 coast — namely, Dunnose, near Shanklin, Isle of Wight. Whilst 

 residing there, three years ago, I one day brought in from a pool on 

 the jutting spit of rock locally known as " the Ledge," a quantity' of 

 ^tea anguina (the snake's-head polyp), which grows abundantly 

 there on Rijt'qMoea pinastroides. I placed some of it in a " zoo- 

 phyte-trough," and, whilst examining it under the microscope, I 

 saw, to my surprise and delight, a few cells of Beania miraMlis en- 

 tangled with it. The little daughter of a brother microscopist who 

 was with me accidentally upset the trough, and my newly found 

 treasure was lost. I left Shanklin on the following day, and have 

 had no opportunity since then of searching for Beania mirahilis in 

 the rock-pools of Dunnose. 



I remain. Gentlemen, yours, &c. 



HENKr Lee. 



Cuttlefish (Sepia) of the Red Sea'. By Dr. J. E. Geay, F.R.S. 



Savigny, in his plates on the ' Mollusca of Egypt,' figures a 

 cuttlefish {Sepia), t. 5. f. 1-3, from the Ked Sea. Audouin, in his 

 explanation of these plates, considered it Sepia officinalis. This 

 plate was copied in Fenissac's ' Seiches ' (t. 4) as Sepia Savigniana ; 

 Blainville and D'Orbigny altered this name to S. Savignii ; and 

 Ehrenberg, in his ' Symbolae Physicse,' gives to the figure the name 

 of Sepia Pharaonis. 



The bone of this species has not been described or figured. 



Professor Ehrenberg obtained from the Red Sea, near Haman, a 

 bone of a cuttlefish which is about 3 inches long and 1 inch wide, 

 round at each end, and without any posterior spine, which he calls 

 SepAa gihhosa (Symbolaj Physicae, 1831) ; D'Orbigny altered the name 

 to Sepia gihha. 



M. Lefebvre obtained at Cosseir some Cuttlefish-bones, which arc 

 described and figured by M. d'Orbigny under the name of Sepia 

 Lefebvrei, Paleont. Univ. t. 4. f. 5, 6, 1845 (Ferussac and D'Orb. 

 Cephalop. t. 24. f. 1-6). 



Mr. MacAndrew observed bones of Cuttlefish similar to the one 

 here figured on the shores of the Gulf of Suez, and brought two 

 specimens which are now in the British Museum. I think there can 

 be little doubt that S. Lefebvrei is the same as S. gihhosa ; and they 

 both, as suggested by M. d'Orbigny, are the bones of Sepia Savignii, 

 the bones of which have not otherwise been seen or described. 



But the latter suggestion may be doubtful, as Mr. Feilder said 

 that he had examined with his finger all the cuttlefish he saw in 

 the market at Suez (where they are eaten, as they are in most of the 

 toM'ns on the shores of the Mediterranean), and that they all ap- 

 peared to have a shell without the protuberance so peculiar in ^S. 

 Lefebvrei ; indeed Mr. MacAndrew brought home a specimen of a 

 cuttlefish -bone without the protuberance on the inner side, and 

 very like the bone of Sepia officinalis, and still more like Sepia liap- 

 peana, from the Indian Ocean. 



