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curved, reaching to the extremity of the pahii, and, 

 when closed, impinging against it through its entire 

 length. The second pair of legs are long, slender, and 

 membranaceous ; the wrist is longer than the hand, and 

 thickly furred with hair ; the hand is almost oval, very 

 hirsute, and terminating in a minute claw, which is 

 almost lost in a brush of plumose hair at its extremity. 

 The other legs are tolerably long and slender. The 

 second joint of the last three pairs is oval, but not 

 produced so as to cover any of the succeeding joints of 

 the leg ; the posterior margin is serrated, but more dis- 

 tinctly in the last pair than in the other two. The 

 caudal appendages are simple, the penultimate being 

 rather shorter than the other two. The middle tail- 

 piece is ovate, cleft down the centre nearly to the bot- 

 tom, each division being furnished at its apex with a 

 strong blunt spinule. Some of the hairs upon the first 

 pair of legs terminate in a trident ; others have the 

 apex reflexed, so as to assume a club-shaped appear- 

 ance. The extremity of the finger also has a peculiar 

 and probably unique feature, — the point, which is toler- 

 ably fine, is protected by a little membranous sac, which 

 appears to be formed so that the animal can cover or 

 expose it at will. 



This species is as yet rather rare. We have received 

 it from the Moray Frith, from our kind correspondents, 

 the Rev. Geo. Gordon, and Mr. Edward. Professor 

 Kinahan has sent us a single specimen from Dublin 

 Bay ; and recently it has been taken by Mr. J. Gwyn 

 Jeffi'eys and the Rev. A. M. Norman, in Vedlom Voe, 

 Shetlands. 



