term , however, is applied to various crabs , even to the lobsters fished 
from the sea. Of Stomapodes , Isopodes , Myriapodes various kinds 
have been collected and recorded, without, however, having been 
subjected to a more minute examination. The same must be said 
respecting the remaining classes of the lower animals. The Radiaria 
and worms of the sea are as yet but little* known ; neither arc the 
Spongiae, of which New Zealand possesses numerous as well as in- 
teresting species, known to any extent. 
