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COROPHIIDiE. 
form of a long point or process as shown at *. The first 
pair of legs have the hand and wrist continuously oval. 
The second pair have the wrist as broad again and much 
longer than the hand, the subapical process is double- 
pointed ; the hand has the inferior margin irregularly 
waved, but running subparallel with the superior. The 
finger is lanceolate, but slightly curved, and sparingly 
fringed with hairs. The first three pairs of legs are 
shorter than the last two, the thighs being equally 
dilated. The posterior pair of caudal appendages are 
very robust ; the short single branch is tipped with 
short, slightly-curved, obtuse spines, the middle tail-piece 
having several rows of minute sharp teeth upon each 
lobe. The colour of the animal is pale yellow or horny, 
slightly studded with black spots. 
We took our first British specimens in Oxwich Bay, 
on the coast of South Wales, and have since taken it in 
Plymouth Sound, in company with the late Mr. Howard 
Stewart. The Rev. A. M. Norman has sent it to us 
from the coast of Northumberland ; but the original 
specimen of the species was taken by Mr. Templeton in 
the Atlantic Ocean. 
Dana describes, under the name of Pyctilus Brasiliensis , 
a specimen which agrees with our British form ; and 
it is not impossible, since Templeton’s sea voyage was 
from the southern to the northern hemisphere, that his 
species may have been taken off the coast of Brazil, and 
therefore identical with Dana’s species; at all events 
this forms another evidence of the great resemblance 
between the British and South American Crustacea. 
We have never taken this species within its abode; 
but Templeton figures the cell in the form of a long, 
narrow, membraneous tube, about one-fifth of an inch 
in length, his specimen being about one-eighth. 
