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up of small chips of shells, foraminifera, grains of 

 sand, &c. The eye, when in life, is round and white, 

 with five or six black dots. 



It also has been taken in from 70 to 90 fathoms 

 water east of Shetland. 



Genus Podoceeopsis, A. Boeck. 

 podoceropsis sophi^s, A. Boeck. 

 PodocerojDsis Sophia?, A. Boeck, Forh. ved de Skand. 

 Naturt, 8de mode (18G0), p. 666. 



Ncenia tuberculosa, Spence Bate, Cat. Amph. Crust. 

 Brit, Mus. (1862), p. 271, pi. xlvi., fig. 2. 



Habitat. — Dredged on Skelmorlie Bank, in 10 

 fathoms, bottom mud and gravel; and off Skel- 

 morlie Point, in 39 fathoms, bottom mud — Firth of 

 Clyde. It has also been taken off Plymouth, and in 

 Ox wick Bay, south coast of Wales, by S. Bate and 

 Westwood; at Banff, by Mr. Edward; and in Belfast 

 Bay, Ireland, by Mr. Thompson. 



podoceropsis eimapalma, Spence Bate. 



Ncenia rimapalnta, Srjenee Bate, Cat. Amph. Brit. 

 Mus., p. 272, pi. xlvi., fig. 3. 



Habitat. — Frequently found in the shell occupied 

 by the hermit-crab Pagurus Bernhardus, sometimes 

 singly, but at other times a few together. It is not 

 readily seen until the shell has been broken. It is 

 occasionally dredged free. Cumbrae. It has also 

 been taken on the Northumberland coast, by Mr. 

 Joshua Alder ; and in from 70 to 90 fathoms, sixty 

 miles east of the Shetlands, by the late Dr. J. G. 

 Jeffreys and the Rev. A. M. Norman. 



podoceropsis excavata, Spence Bate. 



Ncenia excavata, Spence Bate, Cat, Amph. Brit, 

 Mus., p. 272, pJL xlvi., fig. 4. 



Habitat. — At the roots of Laminaria saccharina, in 

 10 fathoms, west of Shell-hole, Cumbrae; off Garnock 

 Beacon, in 5| fathoms, mud and gravel; off Kirn, in 

 15 fathoms, bottom mud, gravel, and shell-debris ; 



