306 ANIMALS OF DOUBTFUL SITUATIOX. 



Tlie specific characters of none of the species are yet ascertained. 

 Phalangium hirsutum, Montagu, Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. lab. 5. Jig. 7., 

 belongs to this genus. 



Fam. II. Nympiiomd.i:. Leach. 

 Mundil/ks two, biarticulate, didactyle. 



Genus 3. NYMPHUM. Lam., Leach. Nyimphon. Fabr., Latr. 

 PvcNOGOxuM. M'uUer. 



Mandibles longer than the rostrum, with equal joints, the fingers curv- 

 ed, meeting along their whole length and abruptly hooked at their 

 extremities : palpi six-jointed, the second joint elongate, the sixth 

 very small : legs very slender : coxte with the middle joint longest : 

 tibia with the second joint rather longest: tarsi with the first joint 

 somewhat shortest : cUncs simple. 



Egg-bearing organs ten-jointed, inserted behind the rostrum almost 

 imder the anterior pair of legs. 



Sp. 1. Nj/m. gracile. Cinereous: thighs cylindric. 



Nymphum gracile. Leach, Zool. Misc. i. 45. tab. 19. fg. 1. — Supp. to 

 Encycl. Brit. i. 433. pi. 23. 



" Inhabits the British seas ever\-whcre : but as it never attains 

 the size of the Phalangium, misnamed by Linne grossipes (which is 

 figured by Strom in his History of Sondmor, 203. tab. 2. Jig. 16), it is 

 doubtful if it be the same species : but as the Linnean name is so 

 inapplicable, little fault can be found with the more appropriate 

 name for which it has been exchanged." 



Sp. 2. Ki/mph.fcmoratum. Reddish ; thighs dilated and compressed. 



Nymphum femoratum. Leach, Zool. Misc. i. 45. tab. 19. fg. 1. — Supp. 

 to Encycl. Brit. i. 433. 



Inhabits the shores on the southern coast of Devon. 



