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the front of the carapace, and an irregnlar broad white 

 band running down longitudinally on each side, so as to 

 unite these two, leaving an oblong mark of drab insulated 

 in the middle ; tail-plates with a transverse drab band ; 

 uuder parts of body and legs spotted with crimson. 



Crangon sculptus, Bell. Bell's S/irimp. — Carapace 

 with several raised lines, each of which is armed with two 

 or three small teeth, two spines on the median line, one 

 considerably behind the other; second pair of legs much 

 shorter than the first, with two toes; abdomen distinctly 

 sculptured; third, fourth, and fifth segments sharply keeled; 

 sixth and seventh channelled. 



A small species, 7-10ths of an inch long, first described 

 by Professor Bell* from specimens dredged at Weymouth 

 by Mr. Bowerbank. Mr. Gossef found it there not un- 

 commonly. He says it varies much in colour; in one of 

 its most common conditions the ground-colour is a plain 

 drab, studded with minute blackish dots and stellate specks 

 of reddish-brown ; body, especially the abdomen, elegantly 

 clouded with pale sienna-brown in a sinuous but symmetri- 

 cal pattern ; sinuosities in some parts edged with pale blue ; 

 and there are three more conspicuous spots of bright azure- 

 * British Crust., p. 263. f Ann. and Mag. 1853, p. 155. 



