MISCELLANEA. 59 
The next opportunity was spent in searching a part of the coast 
near to Sunderland, and at this place it was rather more plentiful 
than in the former. Last September I obtained two specimens 
from the rocks in Marsden Bay, and on the 380th of last month, 
I was delighted to find, after a laborious search, a single small 
example, apparently the precursor of his race, on the rocks at 
Hartlepool. We have now recorded instances of the occurrence 
of this interesting molluse from Berwick Bay to the mouth of the 
Tees. The Yorkshire naturalists have not, Iam informed by Mr. 
Leckenby, yet found it in the neighbourhood of Scarborough, but 
we may shortly expect to hear of its capture there. It also 
appears to be making rapid progress southward, on the east coast 
of Ireland, as it has been taken in Dublin Bay, a locality where 
it did not occur a few years ago. 
The authors of British Mollusca describe the animal of this 
species as ‘entirely white”. All the examples we have met with 
and examined, have the interior of the mantle of a deep pea- 
green, which striking peculiarity it retains for years after the 
animal is dead. The foot and margins of the mantle are of a 
faint yellow. Concerning the migration of this limpet south- 
ward, we may predict that it cannot, on account of the tidal 
current, extend along the east coast further than Lincolnshire 
and Norfolk. If it extends to the channel it must be by the 
coasts of Wales and Cornwall.—Jdid. 
Goniaster equestris and Nephrops Norwegicus.—One or two 
specimens a-year at most, of this beautiful star fish yclept by fish- 
ermen the sea-pincushion, formerly occurred. They were gener- 
ally caught on the hooks of the deep water lines, very rarely, 
nearer the shore. Going on board a trawl boat, in 1858, I was 
surprised to see a large basket full of remarkably fine specimens. 
They had all been taken during one days trawling off the North- 
umberland coast, in about 40 fathoms water. 
On the same occasion I observed on board nearly two bushels 
of that interesting crustacean the Norwegian lobster Mephrops 
Norwegicus. The robust people of the North do not admire the 
delicate consumptive look of this elegant lobster, and, I believe 
never partake of it until it has been well digested by asturdy cod fish 
