CONTENTS, xv 



Common lobster Embryology of ditto Life-history of 

 lobster Mr. Lloyd on moulting of lobster Prawns 

 Common shrimp Habits of shrimps Banded shrimp 



"Cup shrimp" Gammarus and Hippolyte "Night- 

 walker" Squat lobsters Shore crab and edible crab 

 Spiny spider-crab Mr. Lloyd on decoration of certain 

 crabs Miss G. Stephens on ditto Hyas, Pisa, Inachus, 

 &c. Swimming crabs Crabs at Sydenham Masked 

 crabs Northern stone-crab Nut crabs, &c. Barnacles 



Life-history of ditto Various species of ditto Barnacles 

 at Sydenham Lepas and Scalpellum Star-fishes and 

 sea-urchins, their structures Ambulatory apparatus of 

 ditto Habits of ditto Ur aster, Ophiura, Ophiocoma, 

 Solaster, Comatiela, &c. Sea-cucumbers Annelids or 

 sea worms Various species of ditto Sea-mouse Habits 

 of sea worms Page 254 



CHAPTER XVI. 



SEA-ANEMONES AND OTHER ZOOPHYTES, ETC., OF MARINE 



AQUARIA. 



Gosse and Lankester on sea-anemones Couch's story of sea- 

 anemone* The dahlia wartlet Plumose anemone - 

 Diet of sea-anemones Orange-disked anemone Daisy 

 anemone Cave-anemone Parasitical anemones, Adamsia, 

 &c. Messmateship of Adamsia and hermit crabs 

 Beadlet anemone The opelet Corals in aquaria 

 Gary ophy Ilia, Balanophyllia, &c. Gorgonias or sea-fans 



Iris, Hippuris, &c. Structure of Gorgonias Campanu- 

 larians Larvae of ditto Oaten-pipe corallines Sea-firs, 

 or Sertularia Hydra-tuba British sponges in marine 

 aquaria Various species of sponges The marine aquarium 

 as a nursery for microscopic animals Conclusion 289 



INDEX 311 



