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figure 3c, whereas that of the other two are nearly straight and 
level with the antenne. In fact, the rostra of the three species 
are sufficiently distinct and peculiar to characterise them without 
difficulty. 
The spines at the immediate base and also upon the basal 
joint of the antenne, is a feature of this species, as it is with 
S. egyptius. S.longirostris also possesses a series of minute spines 
on the inner portion of the anterior legs or arms, and the spines 
on the body are more slender, and the body itself altogether more 
delicately formed than that of S. egyptius. 
S. longirostris is a deep-water species, and we have never 
obtained it from the same “catch” as S. rostratus or egyptius, or 
vice versd, so that it would appear that different species of Crus- 
tacea affect different belts, or zones, of depth, and that localities 
of marine forms are as marked and limited as in the case of 
terrestrial fauna and flora. We obtained our specimens from 
fifteen to twenty fathoms. 
Besides the English Channel, this species has been taken off 
our north-east coast; also in the Shetland seas (where it is said 
to be rare), Aberdeenshire coast (commonly), the Hebrides, and 
south-west coast of England. 
The ova are similar to those of S. rostratus, and the time of 
spawning about the same. 
(To be continued.) 
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Tue Wind Car anp THE Marten. — The perusal of Mr. Harvie 
Brown’s articles on these two species (pp. 8, 81), has recalled to mind 
a description of a combat between a Wild Cat and a Marten, which was 
witnessed many years since in Argyllshire, and which is related in a book 
published fifty years ago, and now probably little known, ‘ The British 
Naturalist ; or, Sketches of the more interesting productions of Britain 
and the surrounding Sea.’ No author's name appears on the title-page, but 
the writer’s style seems to indicate that it may have been written by Robert 
Mudie. The combat above referred to is thus described (p. 54) :—* In the 
year 1805, a gentleman, on whose veracity we can depend, witnessed one of 
these combats in the Morven district of Argyllshire. In crossing the 
mountains from Loch Sunart southward he passed along the bank of a 
