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spines of its beak are reported to give venomous wounds. 

 (See Desmaret's ' Considerations ' p. 193.) 



Munida Bamffica, Penn. sp.* Long -claiv eel Lobster. — 

 Abdomen with the second and third segments furnished 

 with some small spines on their front margin. 



Found in deep water from Shetland to Cornwall. It was 

 first described by Pennant, who received it from the Banff- 

 shire coast. Mr. Robert Gray finds it in the Firth of Forth, 

 at Dunbar. It is common on the Irish coast. The Rev. 

 Alfred Norman finds it in the Firth of Clyde, where how- 

 ever it is by no means common. 



Fam. SCFZLJRILJS, Latr. 



Carapace wide. Outer antennae without movable plate. 

 Fifth pair of legs similar to the preceding, and not folded 

 back above them ; all the legs one-clawed ; outer antennas 

 very large and foliaceous ; abdomen very wide and ending 

 in a swimming tail, fan-like as usual, but having the plates 

 soft and flexible for three-fourths of their length. The first 

 abdominal ring without appendages, but each of the four 

 following segments has a pair of false feet ; in the male, the 



* Galathea rugosa, Fabr.; G. longipeda, Lam.; Munida Ilondeletii, Ber. 



