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var. villosiuscula Macg. — A large specimen from St. Aubin's 

 Bay, Jersey, measures i-i- in. by ^ in. An equally large valve has been 

 recorded from Alderney by Mr. Marquand, but erroneously as Mya 

 tnincata. 



T. pubescens Pult. — Mr. James Smith ofjordanhill and the Rev. 

 D. Landsborough have recorded this species from Arran, and Pro- 

 fessor Macgillivray has also recorded it from Footdee, Aberdeenshire, 

 " a perfect individual adhering to a fishing line," but these identifica- 

 tions have been held in doubt. T. pubescens is only rarely obtainable 

 from the trawlers of Plymouth and Penzance. On one occasion in 

 the sixties a comparatively big haul was made of this rare shell from 

 Cornwall (I suspect in ballast sand), which brought the dealers' price 

 from 15/. down to 5/- each. 



A specimen of Lyonsiella (or Pecchiolid) abyssicola M. Sars has 

 been dredged by the Scottish Fishery Boai'd off the Butt of Lewis 

 in 545f., with some fragments of another species of the genus in the 

 same district in gpf. (Simpson) ! 



Neaera Gray. — Researches in the 'Porcupine' and 'Challenger' 

 expeditions have proved this peculiar genus to be a very extensive 

 one in deep water. In addition to the large number of new species 

 described and figured in the respective reports of these expeditions, 

 there are many others remaining undescribed, besides numerous 

 rostral extremities of other species. The latter projecting portions of 

 the shell appear to be especially liable to breakage, judging from the 

 large number of these rostra that are met with, and their great 

 diversity of sculpture denote that they all belong to different species, 

 and indicate that many more remain to be discovered even in the 

 limited areas traversed by these expeditions. 



Neaera abbreviata Forb. — Off the Great Skellig, S.W. Ireland, 

 79-1 lof. (R.I. A. cruise)! 



N. COStellata Desh.— Off the Great Skellig, S.W. Ireland, 79- 

 I lof., and off the mouth of the Kenmare River, 23-38^ (R.I. A. cruise) ! 

 Sanda Island, Clyde, 19-25^ (Knight) ! off Battle Island 4of. (Scott)! 

 Minard Narrows, and off Furnace, Loch Fyne, io-25f. (Scot. Fish. 

 Bd. Rep., 1897). 



N. cuspidata Olivi.— Off Dursey Island, S.W. Ireland, 35f. 

 (R.I. A. cruise); Turnberry, in Ayrshire, 33f, and Lamlash 22f. 

 (Knight) ! 



Mr. Richard Howse, in " Notes on a Dredging Excursion off 

 Durham,"^ records a specimen taken from a haddock. Mediterranean 

 specimens differ from British and Norwegian in being smaller and 

 thinner, with a proportionally longer rostrum. 



1 Ann. Mag. N. Hist., vol. xix., p. 162. 



