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MISCELLANEOUS. 



EUCRATEA CHELATA. 



To the Editors of the Annals of Natural History. 



Tynemouth;, Northumberland, March 1853. 



Gentlemen, — In the March Number of the Annals I perceive 

 that the Rev. T. Hincks has had the good fortune to be the first to 

 announce the discovery of external ovaries on Eucratea chelata. 



While on a ^'isit to Weymouth in May 1849, I picked up several 

 specimens of that very beautiful zoophyte, with some pecuharly- 

 shaped cells, which, with the aid of Dr. A. H. Hassall, I then ascer- 

 tained to be ovarian vesicles. 



I have since then from time to time delayed publishing that inter- 

 esting fact, and my attention having been only within the last month 

 recalled to the subject, by observing, in the Rev. Ds Landsborough's 

 ' Popular History of British Zoophytes,' that ovaries had been re- 

 cently found on two other members of the family Eucratiadse, I then 

 resolved to send you a notice of the result of my observations on 

 Eucratea chelata, and, much to my dismay, found that I had been 

 forestalled by the Rev. T. Hincks. 



Trusting, however, that further information on this point will be 

 acceptable to some of your readers, I have great plea- 

 sure in forwarding to you a rough drawing of a specimen 

 of Eucratea chelata in my possession from Wey- 

 mouth, showing front and side views of the aperture 

 of the ovary, which is always on the same side of the 

 ovary, facing the aperture of the cell from which it 

 springs. The aperture of the upper part of the ovary 

 is on the inner side of the somewhat globular capsule, 

 nearly semicircular, with a slight projecting process 

 on either side near to its junction with that of the 

 lower part, which exactly corresponds with the obUque 

 subterminal aperture of the polype cell. 



I am, Gentlemen, yours truly, 



John Coppin. 



A new Genus and Species of Crustacea. By James Eights. 

 This Antarctic species, from the New South Shetlands, belongs to 

 the Idoteea family. It is remarkable for its gigantic size, the length 

 being 3^ inches, and the breadth across the middle 1| inch. It is 

 also peculiar in having the six anterior legs short and monodactyle 

 or anchoral, while the eight posterior are long, stout, triangulate, spi- 

 nose, and end in a short claw. Superior anteimse short, half the 

 inferior in length, having a very short flagellum ; inferior pair with 

 a multiarticulate flagellum as long as the basal portion. Form of 

 body oblong-ovate. Abdomen 5-jointed, the last segment subtrian- 

 gular with sinuato-arcuate sides, and subcariuate longitudinally along 



