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marked with white spots ; the eyes pale greenish, their 

 stalks mottled above, white and yellow below. My first 

 specimen I obtained by dredging in Gerrans Bay, Cornwall, 

 at a depth of fifteen fathoms, and brought it up in the 

 dredge with a number of Eu. prideanx. It was housed in a 

 shell of Trochus magus. This was on September 13th, 1897, 

 and I kept it alive until the following May, when I killed it 

 (inadvertently) by changing the water. I have at various 

 times since taken several others, and found them very 

 amenable to the conditions of aquarium life, their pabulum 

 consisting of fine weeds, such as confervas and Bryopsis, as 

 well as minute debris of both animal and vegetable nature. 

 The specimen exhibited was taken June 18th, 1898, in the 

 shell of Turritella, which is completely covered by a colony 

 of the hydroid Hydractinia, whose hard basal spines form a 

 good protection to the crustacean. 



" Eupagurus sculptimanus, Lucas, is another of Bell's un- 

 fortunate attempts to render well-deserved honour to his 

 friends. He discovered this species among a parcel of 

 small hermits received from Falmouth, and named it Pag. 

 forbesii after Professor Edward Forbes, but here again the 

 law of priority insists on the name sculptimanus previously 

 given by Lucas. My specimen was obtained by dredging in 

 Gerrans Bay on the 18th September last, and as I took it in 

 company with several specimens of Eu. pubescens, I regarded 

 it at the moment as of that species ; but closer inspection at 

 home showed me that it was much less hairy, that the hand 

 was proportionately broad and the carapace shiny, and the 

 antennae hairless. The specimen exhibited housed itself in 

 a shell of Mangelia which had afterwards become completely 

 invested by the sponge Suberites ficus. 



" Anapagurus hyndmanni, Thompson. This beautiful little 

 hermit was first obtained by Thompson at Portaferry. 

 It has since been taken in Belfast Bay, the Firth of Forth, 

 the Rev. Alfred Norman has recorded it from Weymouth 

 and Falmouth, and Mr. Boswartha dredged it near Ply- 

 mouth. Whilst out with the oyster dredgers at the mouth 

 of the Fal last October, I found the left-hand specimen 

 running over the sorting board, and on two separate days 

 just before Christmas I took the others at low water (spring 

 tide) at the foot of the Bass Rock in front of my house at 

 Portscatho." 



Mr. Step also exhibited the marine hemipteron Acpophilus 

 bonnairei from Portscatho, Cornwall (see E.M.M.i89g,p. 283). 



Mr. Hy. J. Turner exhibited several species of dragon- 



