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unimaginable by us, is thus obtained, of outward 

 things. 



The poor maimed creature managed to stump awk- 

 wardly about for a few days, but soon died, with no per- 

 ceptible attempt to renew the self- amputated members. 



The Brittle-stars appear to move by means of the 

 flexibility of their long snake-like rays, the spines with 

 which they are furnished enabling these organs to obtain 

 a hold on the surface along which they crawl ; and that 

 so secure that even perpendicular and very smooth 

 surfaces present no hindrance to their progression. 

 They have no proper suckers; and the rays are not 

 constituent portions of the body, containing part of the 

 stomach and intestine as in the true Star-fishes, but 

 imperforate appendages to it. 



Crouching among the rubbish, with all its long limbs 

 snugly packed together, as if hoping to find safety in 

 being overlooked, we see a strange form of Crustacea, 

 the Angled Crab. 1 Vain hope ! How can a creature of 

 that bizarre form, and of those conspicuous colours, be 

 concealed from notice by merely lying still? Gently 

 touch him behind, and what an enormous length of 

 limb is suddenly thrown out ! If, according to the pro- 

 verb, " kings have long arms," surely this must be the 



1 Gonoplax angulalus, the principal figure in Plate xxvr., occupying the 

 foreground. 



