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nection with his branch of the Sessile-eyed Crus- 

 tacea. In one case, Edward caught only the anterioi 

 moiety of a small Crustacean (Protomedeia hirsuti- 

 mand), and yet Mr. Bate includes it in his list, and 

 gives a drawing of it. Mr. Bate also did every justice 

 to the accurate, description of the habits of the species 

 which Edward forwarded to him. For instance, 

 Edward discovered the Vililia lorealis, a new 

 species, in the Moray Firth, on which Mr. Spence 

 Bate observes 



" Hitherto the species of this genus have been 

 taken only as pelagic, in tropical or sub-tropical lati- 

 tudes. It is an interesting fact that this species 

 should have been taken off the coast of Banff, from 

 whence it was sent us by that very successful ob- 

 server Mr. Edward, who, in writing, says : ' I can 

 say little as to its habits. I took eleven, and kept a 

 few alive for a short time, but observed nothing in 

 their manners beyond that which may be seen in the 

 majority of species. I supplied them with plenty of 

 sand, and also with a few marine plants, but they 

 neither seemed to be burrowers nor climbers, as they 

 never went into the one nor appeared to care for the 

 other. They, however, swam a little. This they do 

 somewhat after the manner of Callisoma crenata ; in 

 other words, they rise gradually from the bottom until 

 they reach the top ; then, putting on more power, they 

 swim round and round the vessel. With close obser- 

 vation I observed that the superior antennae were kept 



