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Les Seiwestides des Em>éditjo\s du TiiAVAiMjau et m Talis.uaiN, 



PAIt AI. If. .1. Ha.\skîv. 



(GjeiUofle, près (Joponliajfuo.) 



The study of the Crustacea Decapoda of ihe family Scrgcslldœ caplui-ctl 

 by Ihe Travailleur and (lie Talisman fiiiring their well-known expedilions 

 lias been given in charge lo me by Professor E. L. Bouvier. The family 

 comprises in ail fivo gênera belonging to Iwo subfamilies, S.'rfreslino' nnd 

 Liiciferina', hul Iwo of ihe gênera , Sici/oiiella Borrad. and Acctcs H. M.-Edw , 

 bave never ])een fonnd in ihe AUanlic noilh ul' ial. lo" ]N., and may por- 

 baps never be lound there. Of ibe ihrec olber gênera Iwo are represenled 

 in Ihe collection. Of Sergesles H. M.-Edw. six species are présent, an;l 

 one auiong iheni, an inleiesling form wilh numerous highiy developed 

 Inminoiis oigans, is new to science: of ihe olher geniis, Pctalid'um Baie, 

 ihe single species found norlh of equator is represented. 



Al présent, l work ouL the s[)]entiid niMin-'iA o{ Scrffcalida; collocled liy 

 ih.' Piincc of Monaco. As his nialerial comprises every species hilherlo 

 laken by any olher Zoologisl or expédition norlh of lai. 10° N., and nol 

 only the adidl or suhadiill spécimens but besides larval slage.s of ihe grcal 

 majority, tlie |)appr in préparation sliall be a kind of monograph of llie 

 Norlh Allanlic fann;) (llie Mediterranean incknlcd) of lh:it family, contain- 

 ing somcwhat delailed desciiptions of ail species and lijc larv.u logether 

 willi mmierous ligures. This is staled hère, becaiise every species from Ihc 

 Travailleur and the Tal'sman bas also been galhered by th.? Prince of Mo- 

 naco, so Ihal Ihey wHI a!i be describcd aid fijurcd in Ihc future pape,-. 

 But of Ihe single new species coliecte!l l»y tin Talisman a preliminary 

 description is given in ihis lillle Irealise, and the type b dono-s lo lh.3 Mu- 

 séum d'Histoire naturelle, 



Sergiîstes XRCTiCL's Kroycr (i 855). 



S. arclicm KrOïki',, Knt. D. Vil. Sr'!sk. S'irifler, ."). R;e'ckc, Naturv. on- nialli. 

 Afdellng, Bd. A, i85f), p. -î'io, T il), lit, Im<js 7n-{r, TaS. V, Pinr. i(3. 



.S'. arc/fVus- Stanley Kkmp, Fiiheries linhuid Sj.i. Iitvst. iqoS, [(inio), p. .3o, 

 pi. III, figs. iS-ig. 



Muséum. — xxvi. 3.3 



