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curved, reaching to the extremity of the palm, and, 
when closed, impinging against it through its entire 
length. The second pair of legs are long, slender, and 
membranaceous ; the wrist is longer than the hand, and 
thickly furred with hair ; the hand is almost oval, very 
hirsute, and terminating in a minute claw, which is 
almost lost in a brush of plumose hair at its extremity. 
The other legs are tolerably long and slender. The 
second joint of the last three pairs is oval, but not 
produced so as to cover any of the succeeding joints of 
the leg ; the posterior margin is serrated, but more dis- 
tinctly in the last pair than in the other two. The 
caudal appendages are simple, the penultimate being 
rather shorter than the other two. The middle tail- 
piece is ovate, cleft down the centre nearly to the bot- 
tom, each division being furnished at its apex with a 
strong blunt spinule. Some of the hairs upon the first 
pair of legs terminate in a trident ; others have the 
apex reflexed, so as to assume a club-shaped appear- 
ance. The extremity of the finger also has a peculiar 
and probably unique feature, — the point, which is toler- 
ably fine, is protected by a little membranous sac, which 
appears to be formed so that the animal can cover or 
expose it at will. 
This species is as yet rather rare. We have received 
it from the Moray Frith, from our kind correspondents, 
the Rev. Geo. Gordon, and Mr. Edward. Professor 
Kinahan has sent us a single specimen from Dublin 
Bay ; and recently it has been taken by Mr. J. Gwyn 
Jeffreys and the Rev. A. M. Norman, in Vedlom Yoe, 
Shetlands. 
