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Caligus rapax, Hdwards c. On cod. 
Anchorella uncinata, Wiiller 1 On cod. 
Balanus poreatus, Da Costa r.c. r. Small specimens. 
crenatus, Brug r.c. 
Hameri, Ascan Yr, Small specimens. 
Verruca Stromia, Willer c. 
Scalpellum vulgare, Leach c. On sertularian 290- 
phy tes. 
Famiry. Palemonide. 
Susram. ALPHEIN #, Dana. 
Genus. HIPPOLYTE, Leach. 
Hiepotyte securirrons, Norman. (Pl. XII. fig. 1-7.) 
Hippolyte securifrons, Norman. Brit. Assoc. Report, 
1861. 
Cephalothorax gibbosus, carinatus, atque dentatus; dentes 
marginem tertia cephalothoracis parte posteriorem non 
attingentes. Rostrum altum, truncatum, securiforme, 
squaman antennalem non superans; dentes marginis 
superioris 6-13, simplices; quorum 2-4 in cephalothoracis 
carina siti, et 8-5 ad rostri extremitatem in senioribus 
minuti, in junioribus evanescentes. Margo cephalothoracis 
anterior quatuor aculeorum paribus armatus, duobus 
supra oculos, tertio infra oculos, quarto ad junctionem 
marginis anterioris cum marginibus lateralibus. Antenne 
interiores perbreves. Segmentum abdominale tertium 
pone vix productum. Telson tribus vel quatuor aculeo- 
trum lateralium paribus, et sex aculeis terminalibus 
instructum. 
This species—the finest British Hippolyte—was first dredged by 
My. Jeffreys and myself in the summer of 1861, in seventy or 
eighty fathoms water, about sixty miles east of Shetland, and was 
briefly characterized in a paper read at the Manchester meeting of 
the British Association. During the recent dredging off this 
coast, several examples of H. securifrons were obtained between fifty 
and sixty miles east of Tynemouth, and also in Berwick Bay; and 
still more recently a specimen has been sent to me which was pro- 
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