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GAMMARIDiE. 
styliform, the antepenultimate and ultimate pairs having 
their branches unequal and tipped with a few small 
spines. The terminal piece is pointed at the tip. 
The colour of the animal when fresh was pale straw, 
thickly blotched with rose-coloured patches over the 
body, and the coxae were colourless and very trans- 
parent. 
The animal was taken by us from some trawl-refuse 
brought from near the Eddystone Lighthouse, and is 
very elegant in its appearance. 
We are not able to give the precise size, since un- 
fortunately the only specimen which we have seen has 
not been preserved ; but to the best of our recollection, 
the animal is about the eighth of an inch in length. 
We would also offer this as a reason for suggesting 
some reservation as to the exact correctness of the de- 
tails of the description ; the figure was, however, taken 
from the animal when it was quite fresh, but it was 
lost before it could be examined more minutely. 
We have sometimes, indeed, thought it possible that 
the limb described and figured as one of the first pair 
of legs may be the extremity of one of the third pair 
of limbs accidentally thrown forwards, in which case the 
first pair of limbs may be subchelate, and if so, the 
animal must take its place as a species of Montagna > 
notwithstanding the reduced size of the fourth, and the 
enlarged dimensions of the succeeding coxae. 
With these causes for doubt on our mind, we deter- 
mined on the specific name. 
