Miscellanea Zoologica. 377 
eyes are placed in a square, the anterior clusters rather more ap- 
proximated than the posterior : body of 4 transverse segments, each 
armed with a dorsal tubercle along the medial line, and an obtuse 
one on each side, within which there is a round depression ; the pos- 
terior margin of the segments elevated, the fourth narrower, obcor- 
date, its tubercle placed forward, while behind it is terminated by 
the narrow cylindrical abdomen : legs 4 pairs, the first and second 
rather longer than the third, and the fourth are still shorter, all of 
them with 8 joints nodulous at the knees ; the three basal (coocce) 
short, sub-equal, the fourth and fifth twice as long, with two unequal 
tubercles on the distal ends and a bulged process underneath, sixth 
joint shorter than the fifth, seventh minute, globular, eighth curved, 
as long as the sixth, and terminated with a sharp claw, the joints 
forming the tarsus covered with a very short hairiness on the under 
surface. 
The female appears to be rare. She carries her innumerable ova, 
enveloped in a broad square gelatinous membrane or apron, under 
the body between the legs, where they are attached in front to a 
pair of filiform jointed organs, which originate from a callous ring 
that encircles the base of the rostrum. The joints are ]0, the 5 ba- 
sal ones shorter than the others, while the terminal one forms a 
slightly curved sharp claw. Linnaeus describes the rostrum as be- 
ing of the length of the feet " rostrum membranceum, subsubula- 
tum, longitudine pedum/' which, if not an error, might seem to in- 
dicate another species. 
Fig. 1. The male, nat. size. 2. The female slightly magnified 
and seen from below. 3. One of the oviferous legs magnified. 
II. PHOXICHILUS,* Latreille. 
1. Ph. spinosus. 
Phalangium spinosum, Montagu, in Lin. Trans, ix. 100, tab. 5, fig. 7. 
Phoxichilus spinipes, Leach, in Edin. Encyclop. vii. 412. Phoxichilus 
monodactylus, Lam. Anim. s- vert. v. 75 Ph. hirsutus, Stark, Elem. ii. 
203 Ph. species, Cuv. Reg. Anim. iv. 278. Leach, in Lin. Trans, 
xi. 389. 
HAB. " South coast of Devonshire," Montagu. 
DESCRIPTION. " Body linear : snout long, cylindric deflected : 
no feelers : eyes four, fixed in a conical tubercle on the top of the 
fore part of the body behind the snout, placed two forward, two 
backward, and appear under a microscope strongly reticulated ; the 
tubercle on which they are seated, verrucose : on the back between 
* Formed from 9o%o: sharp, and * a claw. 
