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lines ran across the body, two of them terminating in the two 

 upper long tentacula. It was possessed of considerable 



celerity of motion through the water, the body being very 

 rapidly contracted and dilated ; while the long tentacula were 

 thrown out from it, as if to sweep for prey. 



a audi {Jig. 100.) were two crustaceous animals, possessed 

 of the luminous property in a much higher degree of intensity 

 than any yet described. The light given out by one solitary 

 animal was brilliant in the extreme. What must the sight be 

 when the ocean is lighted up with myriads of such beautiful 

 animals ? 



a ( fig AOOJ) very much resembles the Cancer fulgens of Sir 

 Joseph Banks, the Noctiliica Bdnks// of Thompson. It is 

 described by Sir Joseph Banks as having its legs furnished 

 with numerous setae : but this beautiful appearance does not 

 seem to me to be well represented in the figures of this 

 animal, as given by Macartney in the Philosophical Transac- 

 tions for 1810, or as copied from his plate into the frontispiece 

 of Mr. Murray's work, Experimental Researches on Natural 

 History^ or in the figure given by Thompson ; and, as there 

 seems to be some little difference in other respects, perhaps 

 mine may be a separate species. The six legs on the upper 

 part of the body were furnished with numerous setae, most 

 beautifully arranged in curved lines, and, when seen through 

 the microscope, presenting an exceedingly interesting appear- 



