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from its drooping head. In general these are young indi- 

 viduals : I have never met with one between tide-marks, 

 that exceeded an inch in diameter when contracted. What 

 becomes of them as they attain riper years I do not know ; 

 I can only conjecture that they may retire, during the flow 

 of the tide, to a more genial seclusion at a tideless depth. 

 Mr. Peach tells me that he finds the species in pools be- 

 tween tide-marks at Peterhead ; — " hundreds I have seen, 

 some white and others brilliant red, side by side in the 

 same pool." The same excellent observer assures me that 

 he has obtained it four inches in height between tide-marks 

 in that vicinity. 



The following list of British localities will show the 

 general distribution of this species. 



Peterhead, Keith Inch (plentiful), C. W.Peach: Frith 

 of Forth, Sir J. G. Dalyell: Berwick Bay, Dr. G. John- 

 ston : Northumberland and Durham, J. Alder : Scar- 

 borough, Filey, F. H. West: Sandgate (rare), E. L. Wil- 

 liams: Guernsey, E. W. H. Holdsicorth : Plymouth, C. 

 Spence Bate : Selsey, Bognor, G. Gatehouse : Weymouth 

 Bay, P. H. Gosse : Teignmouth (young), R. C. Jordan: 

 Torquay (young) ; Torbay, P. H. G. : Dartmouth, and up 

 the Dart as far as Dittisham, E. W. H. H. : Falmouth, 

 W. P. Cocks: Lundy, Morte, Rev. G. Tugwell: Tenby, 

 P. H. G. : Liverpool (under the pontoons of the landing- 

 stage), F. H. W. : Mersey Estuary, Hilbre Island, E. L. W.: 

 Morecambe Bay, F. H. W. : Clyde, near Glasgow (at low 

 ebbs), Miss Anne Church : Cumbrae, Rev. D. Landsbo- 

 rough: Belfast and Strangford Loughs, Dublin Bay, Dr. 

 E.P. Wright* 



* Most of the above references rest on the authority of private commu- 

 nications made to me by friends ; whose names, having been once given 

 at length, I shall thenceforward cite by their initials. 



