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and to be considerably narrower in proportion than in allied 
forms. The legs are in the same number as in Lu rus. The 
swimming feet appear to differ by the straighter, less rounded 
argins. In the specimen the rhomboidal plates are not 
b r 
direction. The absence of chelate appendages to the posterior 
i i The first sev 
margin of the feet is particularly noticeable. en 
road segments of the abdemen for large ellipse. There is an 
evident and remarkable narrowing of the succeeding caudal seg- 
ments. Of Six appear to be made ou the specimen 
be: The interest which attaches to this remarkable Crustacean 
arises from the discovery of a form which may be allowed to be 
2 preserved. _ : 
“The strange thing is, that this inorganic precipitate is. scarcely 
. 
r omson speaks very guardedly, and does not consider 
the fate of Bathybius to be as yet absolutely decided. But since 
Iam mainly responsible for the mistake, if it be one, of introduc- 
