380 Miscellanea Zoologica. 
IV. PALLENE, * Johnston. 
1. P. brevirostris. (Plate xiil Fig. 7, 8.) 
Pyciiogonum spinipes ? -Fa&r. Faun. Groenl. 232 Phalangium spini- 
pes? Turt.jGmel.\i\. 715 Phoxichilus spinipes? Lair. Gen. Crust- et 
Ins. i. 144. k 
HAS. Amongst corallines from deep water. Coast of Berwickshire. 
DESCRIPTION. Animal araneiform, very slender, pellucid and 
colourless, sparingly hispid, the hairs patent : proboscis semiovate, 
short, porrect, the mandibles originating at its base and overtop- 
ping it ; they are 2-jointed, didactyle, the claws curved : anterior 
segment produced in front so as to form a sort of neck enlarged at 
the origin of the mandibles : oculiferous tubercle between the in- 
sertions of the first pair of legs : abdomen obsolete : legs very slen- 
der, cylindric, nearly equal, 8-jointed, the first and third shorter 
than the second, fourth fifth and sixth elongate, subequal, seventh 
minute, eighth somewhat falcate, spinous on the inner aspect, armed 
with a strong moveable claw and two lesser ones moving in the 
same direction. Oviferous legs filiform, 9-jointed, the basal joint 
short, the second, third, and fourth elongate, the five others shor^ 
ter, subequal, while the three terminal ones are rather strongly 
serrulate along one side. 
Fig. 7- Pallene brevirostris of the natural size ; 8. the same mag- 
nified. 
V. NYMPHON. t Fabricius. 
1. N. femoratum, " reddish; thighs dilated and compressed." Leach. 
Nymphum femoratum, Leach, in Zool. Misc. i, 45. tab. 19, fig. 2. Linn. Trans. 
, 390. Suppl. Encyclop. Brit, i, 433. Sam. Ent. Comp. 306. Stark, 
Elem. ii. 203. 
HAS. " In Angliae occidental! mari. I discovered this species on the shores 
of the Plymouth Sound, but am indebted to the researches of Mr J. Cranch of 
Kingsbridge, for the fine specimen from which our figure is taken." Leach. 
2. N. gracile, " cinereous; thighs cylindric." Leach. (Plate xii. fig. 9-12.) 
Phalangium grossipes, Lin. Syst. 1027. Turt. Gmel. iv. 715. Stew. Elem. 
ii. 326. Phalangium aculeatum, Montagu, in Lin. Trans, ix. 101, tab. 5. 
fig. 8. Pycnogonum grossipes? Fabr. Faun. Groenl. 229 Nymphon 
grossipes et acnleatum, Leach in Edin. Encyclop. viii. 412. N. gracile, 
Leach, Zool. Misc. i. 45, tab. 19. Hg. 1. Supp. Encyclop. Brit. i. 433. pi. 
23. Sam. Ent. Comp. 306. Stark Elem. ii. 203. pi. 6. fig. 17: 
HAB. " Inhabits the British seas every where." Leach. 
DESCRIPTION. Animal araneiform, very slender, of a pale yel- 
* u Hie nunc Emathiae portus, patriamque revisit. 
Pattenen." Virg. Georg. lib. iv. 
f Formed from i/p$ water. 
