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ANIMALS OF DOUBTFUL SITUATION. 
The specific characters of none of the species are yet ascertained. 
Phalangiumhirsutura, Montagu, Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. tab. 5. fig' ?•> 
belongs to this genus. 
Fam. II. Nymphonidie. Leach. 
Mandibles two, biarticulatc, didactyle. 
Genus 3. NYMP11UM. Lam., Leach. Nymphon. Fair., Latr. 
Pycnogoxum. Muller. 
Mandibles longer than the rostrum, with equal joints, the fingers curv- 
ed, meeting along their whole length and abruptly hooked at their 
extremities : palpi six-jointed, the second joint elongate, the sixth 
very small : legs very slender : coxa with the middle joint longest : 
tibia with the second joint rather longest : tarsi with the first joint 
somewhat shortest : claws simple. 
Egg-bearing m-gans ten-jointed, inserted behind the rostrum almost 
under the anterior pair of legs. 
Sp. 1. Nyni. gracile. Cinereous: thighs cylindric. 
Nymphum gracile. Lcacli, Zool. Misc. i. 43. tab. 19. fig. 1. — Supp. to 
Encycl. Eric. i. 433. pi. 23. 
“ Inhabits the British seas everywhere : but as it never attains 
the size of the Phubangium, misnamed by Linne grussipes (which IS 
figured by Strom in his History ofSondmor, 208. tab. 2. fig. 16), it is 
doubtful if it be the same species : but as the Linnean name is so 
inapplicable, little fault can be found with the more appropriate 
name for which it has been exchanged.” 
Sp. 2. Nymph, femoratum. Reddish ; thighs dilated and compressed- 
Nymphum femoratum. Leach, Zool. Misc. i. 43. tab. 19. fig. 2 . — iS up!'- 
to Encycl. Brit. i. 433. 
Inhabits the shores on the southern coast of Devon. 
