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mal which rather resembled an Isopod than one of this 
order of Crustacea. The animal has therefore, for many 
years, been passed over, and Mr. Spence Bate, who was 
not aware of its preservation in the British Museum 
until recently, has omitted it from his “ Museum Cata- 
logue of Amphipod Crustacea,” having followed the 
erroneous assumption of Mr. Gosse and Mr. Adam 
White, that Oniscus testudo of Montagu was a species of 
Owen’s genus Acanthonotus . 
The accompanying vignette of figures, in the pic- 
turesque costume of Normandy, is from a picture in the 
possession of Mr. Hames, of Chagford. 
