CUNDALL : MARINE MOLLUSCA OF LYME REGIS. I97 



But the best results accrued from a trip in a trawler one 

 bright, breezy morning ; the wind was fresh, and kept up a 

 heavy ' lop,' but fortunately we were good sailors and felt no 

 inconvenience from the lively motion. Mackerel fishing on the 

 way out to the trawling ground, some dozen miles from Lyme, 

 proved an agreeable recreation, and the hauling of some fifty or 

 sixty lobster pots also added to the pleasures of the trip, but 

 when at length, after being down some hours, the trawl was 

 hauled aboard and our deck became^covered with soles, brill, 

 skate, dabs, dogfish, cum jnultum altis, with great spider crabs 

 lyMaia squinado), hermit crabs {Pagurus Bernhardus), and 

 numerous examples of Hyas coardatus, &c., moving in all 

 directions, the mind became embarrassed with the richness and 

 variety of the spoil from the bottom of the sea. In addition to 

 its other contents the following mollusca were brought on 

 deck : — 



Loligo vulgaris Anomia ephippium 



Sepia officinalis Lucinopsis undata 



Aplysia hybrida Venus striata 



Cyprina islandica Mactra subtruncata 



Buccinum undatum Tapes virginea 



Pecten opercularis Psammobia ferroensis 



Trochus ziziphinus var. Lyonsii 

 By the time we had overhauled our spoil the sun had set 

 and we were still far from our harbour, before we reached it 

 darkness had set in, and a bright path of phosphorescent light 

 was left in our wake. It appears from the foregoing that we 

 succeeded in enumerating but very few species of the Lyme 

 mollusca. 



As regards the Land and Freshwater Shells, we did not 

 devote much attention to their collection, and as the few 

 occasions on which a diligent search was made only resulted in 

 the discovery of a few of our commonest kinds, we were not 

 induced to further extend our investigations in their direction. 



