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from Valentia Harbour, dredged in six fathoms, was some foraminiferous 

 mud. This has been carefully examined by Mr. C. D. Sherborn, who 

 reports the following species : — Lagena sulcata, W. & J. var., L. lavis, Will., 

 Truncatulina lobatula, Mont., Rotalia becearii, Linn., MilioUna oblomja, 

 Mont., PolystomeUa crispa, Linn., P. striatopunctata, J. & M., and a species 

 oi Bulimina. Some very interesting forms of Purpura lapillus were sent 

 from Donlus Head. In shape and size they agree with Jeffreys' var. minor, 

 and as regards colour may he divided into three races — a. nigra, brown- 

 black ; b. bizona, similar, but with two pale brown bands; and c. lineolata, 

 pale yellowish with three white bands and numerous dark brown spiral 

 lines. Bally-ua-Skellig Bay yielded Kellia suborbicularis and Helcion pellu- 

 cidum var. lavis, specimens of the latter being beautifully iridescent with 

 purple inside. Finne Strand was the locality of specimens of Acteeon 

 tornatilis and Donax viUatiis sent; and from Darrynane Strand were sent 

 Corbula gibba, and Phasianella pullus of five varieties — a. millepunctata, 

 regularly and minutely spotted with pink ; b, cinereolineata, with brown- 

 band and some rather ill-marked grey, closely set interrupted lines ; 

 c. interrupta, with a dark interrupted lines ; and two other less marked 

 forms. This completes the list of Kerry shells sent by Mr. Delap, 

 and though necessarily incomplete it is of some interest as a con- 

 tribution to the fauna of a little-worked district, and more especially 

 for comparison with other local lists, and its bearing upon the question 

 of geographical distribution. It is to be hoped that before long 

 we shall know in some detail the local distribution of our marine fauna, but 

 at present the materials are far too scanty to form any definite conclusions 

 or for any considerable generalizations. With the Kerry collection were 

 three species from DonQg&\ — Spirula peronii, Lam. {S. australis, Brug.) 

 from Maghery Strand, and Fissurella graca (a small depressed form, 

 perhaps var. ima, De Greg.), and Emarginulajissura from Rutland Island. — 

 T. D. A. CoGKERELL (Bedford Park, Chiswick). 



CRUSTACEA. 



Inachus dorynchus at Penzance. — On February 17th I obtained 

 from the stomach of a codfish, caught in Mount's Bay, five specimens of 

 Inachus dorynchus, one a large male measuring fourteen-sixteenths of an 

 inch on the lengthwise of the carapace, and the others (females) much 

 smaller, and all bearing berry. They were all more or less covered with 

 sponges, Fuci, and small corallines. In the male the rostrum was obscurely 

 bifid, but in all the females it was distinctly so. In all of them the colour 

 was reddish brown, and in each the fingers were marked by transverse 

 darker coloured bars. The specimens were perfectly fit for observation, 

 but too far gone for preservation. — Thomas Cornish (Penzance). 



[For a figure of this species see Bell, ' British Slalk-eyed Crustacea,' 

 p. 16.— Ed.] 



