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Illustration of Manilla DesmarestYx Risso, 



The rare occurrence of the genus Phyllosoma in European 

 seas renders the one now described the more interesting ; and I 

 hope another opportunity will enable me to investigate its 

 habits and peculiarities; an object the more to be desired, as 

 the different forms above quoted have not been examined in a 

 recent or favourable state : to this circumstance must be attri- 

 buted the want of correct description which has appeared 

 among authors, as well as the imperfect figures which have 

 been published, particularly in the Atlas of the Dietionnaire 

 des Sciences Naturelles. 



[Will Mr. Lukis please to take an early opportunity of 

 adding a specific epithet to designate the species he has de- 

 scribed, so that, should it prove one previously unknown, it 

 may stand denominated by himself, the first describer of it ? 



A figure of the Phyllosoma brevicorne, of Leach, is in- 

 troduced into Kirby's just published work, entitled On the 

 Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the 

 Creation of Animals, and in their History, Habits, and Instincts, 

 The figure is fig. 3. of plate x. : an incidental notice of the 

 animal is given in vol. ii. p. 59.] 



Class Crustacea, Division Stomapddia Cuvicr, Legion Podophthalma, Order 

 Macroura, Genus Squilla, Species Desmarestw Risso. ( Jigs. 39.and 40.) 



I send a representation (fig. 39.) of a species of &quilla, 

 of which I possess a specimen, and which appears to me to be 

 the same as that noticed by W. Yarrell, Esq., in an interest- 



