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corresponding with the extremity of the finger when 
closed. 
The female appears to differ in no essential character 
from the male, except in the possession of the ovigerous 
sac, the plates of which are attached to the third and 
fourth segments of the body. 
Col. Montagu, who was the discoverer of this species, 
was also the first to observe the love that exists between 
the parent and the offspring in this group of Crustacea. 
He writes, in the seventh volume of the Transactions of 
the Linnean Society :—‘* While examining a female in a 
watch-glass of sea-water under a microscope, we were 
agreeably surprised to observe not less than ten young 
ones crawl from the abdominal pouch of the parent, all 
perfectly formed, and moving with considerable agility 
on the body of the mother, holding fast by their hind 
claws, and erecting their heads and arms.” 
This species is generally of a straw colour, delicately 
spotted with pink, fine specimens having the fingers 
banded with pink. As in all cornuted species, the spines 
on the head and the armature of the hands vary greatly. 
The animal represented by Goodsir under the name of 
C. spinosa has the occipital and dorsal horns of large size, 
as well as those upon the second pair of hands. 
This species appears to be more abundant in the 
southern parts of Great Britain than in the northern, 
although we have it recorded from one extremity to the 
other. It was first found in Devonshire by Col. Mon- 
tagu, and we have frequently obtained it in the neigh- 
bourhood of Plymouth. Mr. Gregor has sent it to us 
from the Moray Frith. Dr. Fleming obtained it from 
the Isle of Man, while Mr. Goodsir records it from 
the Frith of Forth. The Rev. A. M. Norman has 
taken it at Cullercoats, Northumberland, and Mr. R. Q. 
