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mal which rather resembled an Isopod than one of this 

 order of Crustacea. The animal has therefore, for many 

 years, been passed over, and Mr. Spence Bate, who was 

 not aware of its preservation in the British Museum 

 until recently, has omitted it from his " Museum Cata- 

 logue of Amphipod Crustacea," having followed the 

 erroneous assumption of Mr. Gosse and Mr. Adam 

 White, that Oniscus testudo of Montagu was a species of 

 Owen's genus Acanthonotus. 



The accompanying vignette of figures, in the pic- 

 turesque costume of Normandy, is from a picture in the 

 possession of Mr. Hames, of Chagford. 



