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Devon, and sent by him to Dr. Leach, who founded there- 

 on his genus Processa, and figured it in his great work. 

 This specimen is still in the British Museum. That 

 from which my figure and the above description are 

 given was accidentally found by myself in a dish of boiled 

 prawns, on which I was about to breakfast, at Bognor, in 

 the year 1842. Mr. W. Thompson states that there are 

 specimens in the collection made in the south of Ireland 

 by Mr. Vaughan Thompson. 



