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IFrom the Pkooeedin^gs of the Zoological Society of Lonuox, 

 May 22, 1900.] 



On some Crustaceaus from the Falkland Islands collected 

 by M.T. Rupert Valleutin. By the Rev. Thomas R. R. 

 Stebbing, M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



(Plates XXXVI.-XXXIX.) 



The materials on which this paper is founded were collected by 

 Mr. Rupert Vallentin, F.L.S., in Stanley Harbour and the adjacent 

 district during the closing weeks of 1898 and the opening weeks of 

 the following year. During the course of the present century 

 this locality has been visited by several important scieutiHc ex- 

 peditions. It may be worth while to mention the voyage of ' La 

 Coquille ' under Duperrey in the years 1822-1825, the Crustacea of 

 which were described by Gruerin-Meneville between 1828 and 18:^8 ; 

 the voyage of 'L'Astrolabe' and ' La Zelee ' under Dumont d'LTrville, 

 1837-1840, Crustacea byJacquinot and Lucas, 1842-1853; the 

 United States Exploring Expedition under Wilkes, 1838-1842, 

 Crustacea by Dana, 1846-1855 ; Voyage of the ' Erebus ' and * Terror ' 

 under Sir J. C. Ross, 1839-1843, Crustacea by Miers, 1874; 

 the ' Challenger' Expedition, 1873-1876, Crustacea by several 

 writers, 1880-1888. Crustacea from the vicinity have also been 

 described by R. O. Cunningham in 1871, by Targioni-Tozzetti in 

 1877, and by Professor Studer in 1884. Consequently the general 

 features of the zoology of the Falklands are tolerably well known. 



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