MR. C. W. PEACU ON BRITISH POLTZOA. 481 



History,' 1856, in which he has figured and described the above 

 named from Norway and Finmark, collected by the late Mr. 

 McAndrew. In 1860 I obtained at Wick, JST.B., a specimen from a 

 fisherman's line hooked up from deep water off the Caithness coast 

 in 30 fathoms. In the same year I got a second specimen at Lath- 

 eron "Wheel, from the same locality, also from a fisherman's line. 

 I procured a few more (three or four) specimens during my resi- 

 dence at Wick ; however, they are very rare. All of them answered 

 to Mr. Busk's description, with one exception ; this, I fancy, he sus- 

 pected, for he writes ^^ unarmedV in his description. Mine are 

 armed with two delicate spines on tJie distal lip, and when viewed 

 from the front show as if there were one on each side of the central 

 rostrum (see PI. XXITI. fig. 4) ; and thus his note of interrogation 

 was warranted. These spines are generally seen on the last- 

 formed cells, rarely on the central ones ; they are so very delicate, 

 and thus easily knocked off". The common form occurs ofi" Caith- 

 ness ; in fact at every part of the east coast of Scotland where I 

 have resided. I have one much worn specimen of the variety 

 from the Out Haaf of Shetland, dredged by Dr. Grwyn Jeffreys in 

 1864. This, then, is now added (for the first time I believe) to the 

 British list. 



Eschara rosacea. — This is another species described in the same 

 ])aper as the above from Norway, by Prof. Busk, and was first 

 added to the British list by the Eev. A. M. Norman, and described 

 by him in vol. viii. of the ' Microscopical Journal,' pi. vi. figs. 10-21 

 (" On Stones and Shells from Loch Tyne "). I have the pleasure of 

 recording it from a new locality, dredged off Shetland by Dr. 

 Jeffreys in 1864, in from 80 to 100 fathoms, and recognized by 

 myself as new. The first specimen I found I sent to the late Mr. 

 Alder, who could make nothing of it, from its being nearly covered 

 by two species of well-known Lepralia ; very little of the original 

 could be seen. Not being able to get out last year (winter of 

 1876-77), I amused myself by looking over sand and broken organ- 

 isms, and found two more small, well-worn, but characteristic 

 specimens, sliowing the cells &c. sufficiently well for identifica- 

 tion. The specimens are all unattached. This, then, is an addi- 

 tion to the fauna of the east coast of Scotland. 



JEscharastellata,'Pesich,n. sp. (PI. XXIII. fig. 5). — Thisis another 

 specimen dredged by Dr. Jeffreys in 1864 off Shetland ; I noticed 

 it at the time we were there, and fixed it on a ticket, with locality 



