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brought up a very scanty collection of Invertebrates belonging to a 

 few common and widely-distributed species. Similar ground in the 

 Irish Sea and in the English Channel, oif Plymouth, appears to be much 

 more productive ; perhaps the more frequently prevailing and heavier 

 seas in Dingle Bay may account for its apparent barrenness, though 

 Ballinskelligs Bay, which seems to have a more extensive fauna, is 

 -equally exposed and shallower. However, since fish manage to subsist 

 in considerable numbers on this very ground, other organisms of some 

 tind presumably abound, but are not readily caught by the ordinary 

 means employed by the naturalist. 



The characteristic species occui'ring on this ground are : ParaplielUa 

 expama (originally described from the S.W. of Ireland by Professor 

 Haddon '), Astropecten irregularis, Ophiura ciliaris, ^chinocardium 

 pennaiificlum, Spatmigus purpureus, Thyone raphanus, Eupagurus 

 leriihardus (with Sydractijiia), Eup.Prideauxii {with. Adamsia palliata), 

 Ehalia Cranchii, Atelecyclus heterodon, Hyas coarctatus, Inaclms doryn- 

 ■chus, Dentalium, Cardium echinatum. 



Dingle Bay, about 3 miles N.N.E. of Boidus Head, 25 to 30 fms. 

 ca. Mr. Gamble made several hauls of the dredge in this locality. At 

 one station the following were taken on coarse sand : — CaryophyllcBa 

 Smithii, Terelratulina caput- serpentis, Actceon tornatilis {Tornatella 

 fasciata), and a small Doris, belonging to a possibly undescribed species 

 previously taken at Port Erin.^ 



Wild Bank— A.t the JS'.E. end of the Wild Bank (S.E. of Great 

 Blasket Island), on rough bottom of stones, with weed, in 20-15 fms., 

 there were caught: — Carinella superha, Tetastretnma dorsale, Polynoe 

 imiricafa, Phyllodoce sp., Pionosyllis sp., masses of Sabellaria tubes, 

 Thalassema neptuni, Stenorhynchus, Aplysia punctata. 



Two hauls in about 20 fms. — one somewhat to the east of the above, 

 the other at the west end of the Bank — showed a fauna similar to that 

 of the Trawling Grounds. 



Off Reenada. — About 3 miles N.W. of Yalencia lighthouse, 36 fms. 

 ca. Mr. "Walker's Station 8.' Bottom sand, with a few stones and 

 Nullipores. One haul was made here on August 28, the results 

 being similar to those on the Trawling Grounds already noticed, with 

 the addition of Luidia fragilissima, Henricia sangmnolenta, Synapta 

 digitata, Inaclms dorsettensis, Anapagurus Hyndmanni. 



1 First E,eport oa the Marine Fauna of the S.W. of Ireland. Proe. E. I. Acad. 

 (ser. 2), vol. iv,, 1886, pp. 616-17. 



2 Trans. Liverpool Biol. Soc, vol. x., 1896, p. 42. 

 "Trans. Liverpool Biol. Soc., vol. xii., 1898, p. 163. 



