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and four-ranked on their lips in tin- female: Irntarlcs 

 very long in the male, nincli shorter in the female. Shell with 

 thickened margin. Length. _' to :| inches 



S. Ron<l<'l<'li Orb., is the male of this ^pecies. and 1 include 

 here also S. major of Targioni-ToZZCtti, as I cannot lind dis- 

 tinctive characters of sullicient im))ortance to separate three 

 Mediterranean species. as the Italian author has done. 



Mr. Alder says of it: ''This is an odd fish, crouching M V U- 

 erally at the bottom like a toad, with its great goggle-eyes half 

 closed, and sometimes crawling along by means of its sucker-. 

 putting the water through the funnel all the time. When it dot's 

 take to Bmimming, it darts very quickly through the water, and 

 is ditlicult to catch. When taken out of tin- water MIH! placed 

 on the hand, it had recourse to an odd mode of progression. 

 turning two or three somersets in tumbler-fashion, first laying 

 hold with its arms, turning over, and laying hold again until it 

 managed to iret hack into the water." It is said, liy Mr. Gosse, 

 to burrow in the sand by blowing through its funnel, and using 

 its arms, with their suckers, to remove small stones and gravel. 

 They spawn towards the end of May or beuinninu 1 of -I nne. 

 The eggs are arranged in the centre of a bluish gelatinous iiiass. 

 a- if around an axis, and fifteen to thirty of these masses, each 

 containing from forty to one hundred and thirty CL^S. are united. 

 each by :i basal stalk, to form a group attached upon some Mib- 

 marine body. The fry is hatched in twenty-two to twenty-five 

 days They visit the Algeriue coast in numerous troups during 

 the month of May. for the purpose of spawning. In the Medi- 

 terranean it is found at depths of r,o to ^<)() met res. where it lives 

 in company with the Kit-clones. Largely consumed as food in 

 Italy : it i> much esteemed for the delicacy of its tlesh. 



All European 6 

 S. UWKMANA. l-'cr. and Orb. IM. '><i. liii'. 'i:\*. 



Body elongate, ovate, rather pointed behind: (ins very small. 



far apart, nearly circular; >e>sile arm> elongate, slender, subu- 

 late. unejual. order of length '2. :{. I. 1 : tentacles very long and 



-lender, club small, crowded with minute cups. 

 Length, about 4 inches. 



Habitat. VtUItfa. MU-. load., Pliihi. 



