A few extracts from Mr. Norman’s and Mr. Bate’s letters will serve to show the numerous new species which Edward continued to forward to these eminent zoologists.
Mr. Norman (September 24, 1862) writes: “The Mysis I referred to in my last letter is undescribed; and I propose to call it _Mysis longicornis_. Might I be allowed to keep the specimen? I retain it at any rate for the present, in order to draw up a description and figure.
“I have made a most important discovery since I last wrote. On looking again at the specimens (of the Parasites taken by Edward from the Sun-fish) I find that I had confused two species together as _Læmargus muricatus_, and had passed by as the male of that species (looking at them only with the naked eye) a distinct species, which is _new_ to Britain, and which I am at present unable to name.”
Mr. Norman wrote again (January 3, 1863): “Thanks for the Hyperia, which belongs to a different species to those you previously sent me. At present I cannot name them. The Annelid—a very curious fellow—I know nothing of. I will name the Sea-spider _Nymphon_. The treasure of the bottle was, however, the little white shrimp. It is _new_ to Britain, and possibly to science. We will call it, at any rate for the present, _Thysanopoda ensifera_, New Species. The genus is a very interesting one, and only one species, _Thysanopoda couchii_, was previously known in our seas.”
A few days later Mr. Norman wrote to Edward: “I gladly accept your suggestion that the Thysanopoda should be called _T. Batei_ (instead of _ensifera_), and I am as glad as you are to pay the compliment to Mr. Bate. . . . Your observations on the habits of the Thysanopoda are very interesting.”
Edward evidently supplied his correspondent with abundant examples, for, on the 27th of January 1863, Mr. Norman writes: “The parasite on the fin is _Anchorella rugosa_—not a common species. I hope you will procure more. The _Pagurus cuanensis_ bore on its back an example of a highly interesting genus of parasitic Crustacea, _Peltogaster_. The specimens do not belong to the species hitherto recognised in our seas; perhaps they are still undescribed.”
Mr. Bate also wrote to Edward during the same month of January: “I think that your last long-legged shrimp may be a new genus. If so, I propose calling it _Polledactylos_. . . . There are other things of much interest also. Do try what you can do in the way of collecting specimens of the young of crabs, etc. Your species of _Stenothoë clypeatus_ is new to Britain.”