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1899. Ctif.lia.ris adriatica, larva Trackelifei; Scott (Th.), Seventeenth 

 Ann. Rep. Fish. Board Scotland, pp. 268, 209, pi. xii. figs. 16-20. 



1900. Jaxea nocturna, Scott (Th.), Eighteenth Report Fi-jh. Bo.-u-d 

 Scotland, p. 405; and 1902, Twentieth Report Fish. Board 

 Scotland, p. 481. 



Mr. G. Brook was the first person to meet with evidence of 

 this species on the coast of Britain. He described in 1889 

 what is now known to be the larva of Jaxea under the name 

 Trachelifer. In 1899, Dr. T. Scott recorded the larval stage 

 from Loch Fyne and the Firth of Clyde Subsequently he 

 recorded the same stage from Tobermory in the Isle of Man; 

 while his son, Mr. A. Scott, procured it from the Barrow 

 Channel, near Barrow-in-Furness. In 1900, Dr. Scott 

 recorded the occurrence of adult specimens in the stomachs 

 of Gurnards from the Firth of Clyde. 



Mr. Robert Gurney informed us that he had procured the 

 larva from off Salcombe, Devon, and was subsequently so 

 kind as to give one of us {A. M. N.} a specimen. 



Axius STIRHYNCHUS, Leach. 



Sidmouth, among prawns (Leach) ; near Plymouth 

 (Montagu); Polperro (Couch); at Falmouth in stomachs of 

 various fish, and at low- water at Helford and Peudennis in 

 sand (Cocks). 



Fam. 4. SCYLLARID^E. 



ARCTUS URSUS, Dana= Scyllarus arctus, Fabricius. 



About 40 years ago specimens were received by me from 

 time to time which had been procured by Laughrin from off 

 Polperro (A. M, N.). Occasionally brought from deep 

 water to the Biological Laboratory at Plymouth, but Bate 

 says "2-6 fathoms." Penzance (Bate); off the Land's End 

 and off north coast of Cornwall (Tlws. Cornish). 



Fam. 5. PALINURID^E. 



PALINURUS VULGARIS, Latreille. 



Abundant on Devon and Cornish coasts. 



Fam. 6. H o M A R I D JE. 



HOMARUS GAMMARUS (Linne). 



Common. Very large specimens of the Common Lobster 

 have been recorded from the Cornish coast. In the 'Zoologist' 

 of 1873, p. 3G18 ; Mr. J. Barrington Deacon describes one 



