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DEC A POD A. CRANGONIDJE. 



MACROURA. 



THREE-SPINED SHRIMP. 



Crangon trispinosus. 



Pontophilus trispinosm^ HAILSTONE, Mag. of Nat. Hist. VIII. p. 261, fig. 25. 



OF this species I have never seen a specimen ; I there- 

 fore content myself with copying Mr. Hailstone's descrip- 

 tion, and Mr. Westwood's observations on the species ; 

 premising that the characters, as Mr. Westwood very pro- 

 perly remarks, entirely confirm the correctness of Milne- 

 Edwards, and other continental carcinologists, in rejecting 

 the generic separation of Pontophilus from Crangon. 



"On March 1st, 1834, several individuals of a species of 

 Pontophilus were brought to me, which had been caught in 

 a shrimping-net upon this coast. They had only three 

 spines on the thorax ; one in the middle, and one on each 

 side of it. Their colour was much like a shrimp's, but 

 paler, less clouded, and with a sprinkling of golden blots. 

 Their length about an inch. They were called by the 



