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with a pincer. The swimming-feet are plumose, and the tail 

 consists of a telson and four plates fringed with cilia. The 

 colour of this species is of a beautiful pink, and its length is 

 from two to three inches exclusive of claw. 



Callianassa subterranea, as its specific name implies, lives in 

 burrows or subterranean passages ; we have obtained it from 

 such positions in the felspathic claj r on the shores of Jersey in 

 considerable numbers. Its ova are large and few in number, 

 and it would appear as if this was a rule with those Crustacea 

 whose habits are fossorial, and who are not thereby subject to 

 the exterminating influences that others are ; the eggs are 

 hatched in September and October. Besides Jersey, this species 

 is recorded from the Devon coast, from the coast of Down, 

 Ireland, as well as from Cornwall (probably Polperro), and the 

 Moray Firth. 



Gebia stellata, Leach. 



This species we have not yet seen ; it is, however, described 

 by Prof. Bell, who says that the gastric region of the carapace is 

 hairy and sharply scabrous, the rostrum small and acute, and the 

 external antennae with the setae about the length of the body. 

 The anterior pair of legs have the arm elongated and slightly 

 curved, with a small tooth near the extremity ; wrist armed with 

 a sharp spine ; the second to fifth pair of legs gradually becoming 

 more slender. The abdominal somites are broader in the middle 

 than at the extremities, the swimmerets are plumose, and the 

 tail-plates short and broad, being, like all the legs, fringed with 

 cilia. Length about an inch and a half. 



This species is said to have been discovered by Mr. Gibbs in 

 the Kingsbridge Estuary, and Leach states that " it has been 

 taken on some of the shores of Plymouth Sound, under the mud, 

 in which it makes long winding horizontal passages, often of a 

 hundred feet or more in length." It has also been recorded from 

 the Moray Firth. 



(To be continued.) 



