AMPHITHOE RUBRICATA. 
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111 some specimens recently sent to us from Banff we 
found these nests to consist chiefly of this exquisitely 
fine thread, built and twisted in with very little foreign 
material such as straw and weed. One spot in the nest, 
which from its thinness and position offered a favourable 
place for examination without being ruptured, was 
observed under the microscope to be arranged in a loose 
kind of network as fairly represented in our vignette. 
The type was taken by Col. Montagu on the soutli 
coast of Devonshire, probably at Salcombe. Some speci- 
mens were dredged by us in Plymouth Sound, upon 
stony ground between the eastern end of the break- 
water and Bovisand, of a most brilliant colour. Mr. 
Harris, of Sidmouth, sent us a few specimens from 
Penzance procured on the shore at low spring tide. The 
Rev. A. M. Norman and Mr. Jeffreys have taken it in 
from two to five fathoms in Outer Skerries Harbour, also 
in four fathoms one mile north of Whalsey Lighthouse, 
Shetland; Mr. Norman has also sent it to us from 
Cullercoats. It is also recorded from Strangford Loch 
by Thompson and Hyndman in the “ Annals of Natural 
History ’’for 1847. 
A portion of the Nest of Amphithoe nibricata, as seen under the 
microscope, with an object glass of £ of an inch. 
