18 HISTORY OF CRUSTACEA. CHAP. III. 



deed I did not believe to be still extant, had not at the 

 moment vividly occupied my attention. 



And if I had not long been seeking among the 

 Edriophthalma for traces of the supposititious Zoea- 

 state, and seized with avidity upon everything that 

 promised to make this refractory Order serviceable to 

 me, Van Beneden's short statement could hardly have 

 affected me so much in the manner of an electric 

 shock, and impelled me to a renewed study of the 

 Tanaides, especially as I had once before plagued 

 myself with them in the Baltic, without getting any 

 further than my predecessors, and I have not much 

 taste for going twice over the same ground. 



