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{126b} Echinus miliaris, Plate VII.

{127} See Professor Sedgwick’s last edition of the “Discourses on the Studies of Cambridge.”

{129} Fissurella græca, Plate X. fig. 5.

{130a} Doris tuberculata and bilineata.

{130b} Eolis papi losa. A Doris and an Eolis, though not of these species, are figured in Plate X.

{136} Plate III.

{138} Certain Parisian zoologists have done me the honour to hint that this description was a play of fancy. I can only answer, that I saw it with my own eyes in my own aquarium. I am not, I hope, in the habit of drawing on my fancy in the presence of infinitely more marvellous Nature. Truth is quite strange enough to be interesting without lies.

{139a} Saxicava rugosa, Plate XI. fig. 2.

{139b} Plate VIII. represents the common Nassa, with the still more common Littorina littorea, their teeth-studded palates, and the free swimming young of the Nassa. (Vide Appendix.)

{140a} Cypræa Europæa.

{140b} Botrylli.

{140c}

Molluscs. Doris tuberculata. Sigaretus.

— bilineata. Fissurella.

Eolis papillosa. Arca lactea.

Pleurobranchus plumila. Pecten pusio.

Neritina. Tapes pullastra.

Cypræa. Kellia suborbicularis.

Trochus,—2 species. Shænia Binghami.

Mangelia. Saxicava rugosa.

Triton. Gastrochoena pholadia.

Trophon. Pholas parva.

Nassa,—2 species. Anomiæ,—2 or 3 species

Cerithium. Cynthia,—2 species.

Botryllus, do. Annelids. Phyllodoce, and other Nereid Polynoe squamata. worms. Crustacea. 4 or 5 species. Echinoderms. Echinus miliaris. Ophiocoma neglecla.

Asterias gibbosa. Cucumaria Hyndmanni.

— communis. Polypes. Sertularia pumila. Tubulipora patina.

— rugosa. — hispida.

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