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the front of the carapace, and an irregular broad white 
band running down longitudinally on each side, so as to 
unite these two, leaving an oblong mark of drab insulated 
in the middle ; tail-plates with a transverse drab band ; 
under parts of body and legs spotted with crimson. 
Crangon sculptus, Bell. BelVs Shrimp . — Carapace 
with several raised lines, each of which is armed with two 
or three small teeth, two spines on the median line, one 
considerably behind the other; second pair of legs much 
shorter than the first, with two toes; abdomen distinctly 
sculptured; third, fourth, and fifth segments sharply keeled; 
sixth and seventh channelled. 
A small species, 7-lOths of an inch long, first described 
by Professor Bell^ from specimens dredged at Weymouth 
by Mr. Bowerbank. Mr. Gosset found it there not un- 
commonly. He says it varies much in colour; in one of 
its most common conditions the ground-colour is a plain 
drab, studded with minute blackish dots and stellate specks 
of reddish-brown ; body, especially the abdomen, elegantly 
clouded with pale sienna-brown in a sinuous but symmetri- 
cal pattern ; sinuosities in some parts edged w T ith pale blue ; 
and there are three more conspicuous spots of bright azure- 
* British Crust., p. 263. f Ann. and Mag. 1853, p. 155. 
