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but we have taken one or two specimens with some 
beautiful stellate crimson spots, as well as several black 
ones near the organs of vision. 
We first procured this species from our valued cor- 
respondent, the Rev. Geo. Gordon ; since which we have 
received it from Mr. Edward, both having taken it in the 
Moray Frith. It has also been dredged by us in Ply- 
mouth Sound ; and in the British Museum are specimens 
which Mr. Barret has taken in the North Atlantic. 
This species is much more rare than A. Gaimardii, and 
apparently less extended in its geographical range. Pro- 
fessor Liljeborg has taken, at Kullaberg, on the coast of 
Norway, a species, A. macrocephala } which, from his de- 
scription, bears so close resemblance to the present, that 
we should have regarded them as identical, but that he 
says the fourth segment of the pleon is carinated, and 
the sixth is posteriorly obtusely bidentate. Mr. Stimp- 
son has also recorded a species, A. ingens , taken at Grand 
Manan, on the coast of America, which somewhat re- 
sembles A. Belliana , but differs in having the margin 
of the sinuated segment less deeply waved, the greater 
length of the superior antennae, the more perfectly de- 
veloped form of the first pair of hands, and lastly, in 
that truly American feature, its large size — being three 
times as large as the European form. M. Holboll has 
also found this last species in forty fathoms of water, on 
the coast of Greenland. 
The species is inscribed with the name of Professor 
Bell, F.R.S., &c., whose work on the “ British Stalk- 
Eyed Crustacea” has greatly tended to the study of 
this branch of Natural History, and to whom we are 
bound to offer our warmest thanks for the assistance he 
has afforded us, with his wonted urbanity, in the prepara- 
tion of this work. 
