Results of deep dredyiny off the Mull of Cantire. 19 V. — Note of Species obtained by deep Dredyiny near Sana Island, off the Mull of Cantire. By George C. Hyndman, Esq., Member of the Natural History Society of Belfast*. When cruising about with my friend Edmund Getty, Esq., in the Gannet yacht on the 19th of July 1841, the following result was obtained by dredging at the depth of forty fathoms, about two miles east of Sana Island. The bottom was shelly, with a proportion of shell-sand. The region (i coralline/' ac-cording to Mr. Forbes's definition. Dredge down three times. Species obtained. Fishes. Aspidophorus europaeus Mollusca. Chiton laevis Capulus hungaricus . . . Emarginula fissura Trochus tumidus millegranus ... Buccinum undatum Fusus despectus corneus Natica glaucina, Flem. . Montagui, Forb. Alderi, Forb. ... Rissoa communis, Forb. Orthocera Anomia Nucula margaritacea . . oblonga, Brown's Illus. Modiola vulgaris Nucula rostrata Anatina pubescens Kellia suborbicularis ... Mactra elliptica Goodallia triangularis "I minutissima j Tellina crassa Psammobia florida . Cardium laevigatum. Lima subauriculata . fragilis tenera . Pecten sinuosus obsoletus 12 18 3 1 12 160 Observations. On fragment of Echinus. Small and worn. Small. Largest size, containing Pagurus Bernhardus One very minute. Invested with Actinia (Jdamsia) maculata and containing Pagurus Prideauxiana. In shell-sand. All upper valves. Small. Single valves. Single valves. Odd valve. Single valves, chiefly small. f All dead ; two or three of each species per \ feet, and several odd valves. Single valves. Single valves. Single valves, small. Nearly half an inch in length," as was a spe-cimen procured by Mr. Jeffreys at Oban. Single valves. Not a single specimen with the valves united, but some of them with the cartilage fresh. Many worn and covered with Serpulce and crustaceous zoophytes. The specimens are generally large — one is 1 jinch in length. Mr. Jeffreys found the species at Oban If inch. Single valves. Single valves. * This and the following communication were brought before the notice of the British Association at the Manchester meeting by Mr. Patterson. C.2
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