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crenulata, animal and shell still in partnership. As this was the 
first one I had seen alive, I was more delighted than if I should 
have been over the discovery of a continent. I have all the conti- 
nents I want, but am always ready for another giant key-hole. 
Having all paid our respects to our new acquaintance, and re- 
covered somewhat from the shock of finding something we really 
wanted, we gently put him to rest in the pail of sea water carried 
by the “zoologist,” and we proceeded on our way to other “ finds.” 
Not many minutes later another Lucapina met my delighted gaze, 
and with fewer demonstrations than before, he was seized and sent 
at once to join his brother. 
By this time we had come to the bed of mussels, clams and oysters 
which had begun to be exposed to view. We had reason to look 
for rock oysters, Hinnites giganteus, in that section of the country. 
but as collecting them had never been much in our line before, it 
took us some time to learn how to find them. They were somuddy 
and looked so much like other things for which we had no use, that 
we could’nt always be sure of what we were getting, till afterward. 
While Mr. T. wrestled with that problem, I amused myself by 
springing pleasant surprises on cup and saucer limpets, Crucibulum 
spinosum, and transferring them to my basket trom their happy 
homes on stones, old shells, broken glass, ete. As this was a new 
kind of limpet for me to collect alive in any quantity, and of good 
size, I laid in a good supply. Occasionally specimens of Lutricola 
alta, Semele decisa,Sanguinolaria Nuttallii, Psammobia rubro-radiata, 
Bulla nebulosa and Haminea virescens were found along here. 
A little further on we began to find quantities of Heterodonaz 
bimaculatus, of a larger size than we had found in San Pedro Bay, 
of various colors, purple, salmon, white and striped, every one too 
beautiful to leave! 
A few minutes before time for our return boat, our most exciting 
capture was made, that of a devil fish, presumably 18 inches or 
more from tip to tip (he would’nt lie still to have his measure taken). 
He was ruthlessly torn from the hole under a stone where he was 
domiciled, and, in spite of his writhes and wriggles, was consigned 
to the sea water pail, which by this time was filled to overflowing 
with star-fish, sea-cucumbers and the not to be overlooked giant 
key-holes. Now the star-fish were respectfully invited to take a 
back seat in some of the numerous bags, etc., which we have learned 
to carry for just such emergencies, that his majesty, the devil fish, 
