Caption title.

Plates signed: Salv. Calyáo dis.; Raff. Radente inc.

An earlier version appeared in the Rendiconto dell' Accademia delle Scienze Fisiche e Matematiche, nuova serie, anno 2 (1853), pages 167-178.

Apparently an extract from the Memorie della Reale accademia delle scienze (Naples), either from volume 1 for 1852/1854 (issued in 1856) or from volume 2 for 1855/1857 (issued in 1857).

Printed citations referencing works published in 1855 and 1856 appear in a footnote on page 176.

Some copies have illustrations that are partially color-printed, finished with hand-coloring.

Page 196 is misnumbered as 186.

Includes bibliographical references.

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SCNHRB copy 39088007229644 has color-printed plates finished with hand-coloring.

SCNHRB copy has stamps on title page: Crustacea Library, Smithsonian Inst., return to W-119; Invertebrate Zoology, Crustacea; Library, Division of Crustacea; Smithsonian Institution National Museum, Mar. 7, 1907; with handwritten accession number in ink: 198081. "Napoli 1857" is written in pencil at the top of the title page, in an old style of writing.

SCNHRB copy has a modern burgundy embossed cloth library binding with gilt-lettered spine, and faux marbled edges. Pages 171-172 have been misbound between pages 166 and 167.