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but we have taken one or two specimens with some 

 beautiful stellate crimson spots, as well as several black 

 ones near the organs of vision. 



We first procured this species from our valued cor- 

 respondent, the Rev. Geo. Gordon ; since which we have 

 received it from Mr. Edward, both having taken it in the 

 Moray Frith. It has also been dredged by us in Ply- 

 mouth Sound ; and in the British Museum are specimens 

 which Mr. Barret has taken in the North Atlantic. 



This species is much more rare than A. Gaimardii, and 

 apparently less extended in its geographical range. Pro- 

 fessor Liljeborg has taken, at Kullaberg, on the coast of 

 Norway, a species, A. macrocephaldj which, from his de- 

 scription, bears so close resemblance to the present, that 

 we should have regarded them as identical, but that he 

 says the fourth segment of the pleon is carinated, and 

 the sixth is posteriorly obtusely bidentate. Mr. Stimp- 

 son has also recorded a species, A. ingens, taken at Grand 

 Manan, on the coast of America, which somewhat re- 

 sembles A. BeUiana, but differs in having the margin 

 of the sinuated segment less deeply waved, the greater 

 length of the superior antennae, the more perfectly de- 

 veloped form of the first pair of hands, and lastly, in 

 that truly American feature, its large size being three 

 times as large as the European form. M. Holboll has 

 also found this last species in forty fathoms of water, on 

 the coast of Greenland. 



The species is inscribed with the name of Professor 

 Bell, F.R.S., &c., whose work on the " British Stalk- 

 Eyed Crustacea" has greatly tended to the study of 

 this branch of Natural History, and to whom we are 

 bound to offer our warmest thanks for the assistance he 

 has afforded us, with his wonted urbanity, in the prepara- 

 tion of this work. 



