HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



NOTES ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF 

 JERSEY. 



By Edward Lovett. 



[Co?ttinued from Jiage 77.] 



Crustacea. 



THE podophthalma or stalk-eyed Crustacea are 

 remarkably well represented in Jersey, where 

 the favourable circumstances that are so conducive 

 to the marine life already referred to, are perhaps 

 even more so to this group of animals. Its shores 

 present favourable localities, not only to those species 



Athough dredging is a favourable method of 

 obtaining these animals, and in fact the only method 

 for very deep water species, still the best results as 

 regards number of species are often obtained by 

 searching the rocks and pools left by the receding 

 tide ; those farthest from the shore being usually the 

 most prolific in specimens. 



In this way a fairly good collection can soon be 

 made, and the interest attached to working in this 

 manner is greatly increased by the vast number of 

 other animals that are to be met with, and from ■ 

 whose habits and mode of existence so much may be 

 learned and so much pleasure derived. 



JFig. 95. — ririmela denticiilata. 



Fig. 96. — Euryonoine aspcra, female. 



Fig. 98. — Euryonoine aspcra, male. 



Avhose habits lead them to frequent rocky sheltered 

 bays and boulder-strewn beaches, but also to those 

 that affect sandy reefs or mud and clay banks. In 

 order to enable the student to identify the species, 

 and recognise the localities whence those species may 

 be obtained, it is our intention to enumerate, in the 

 arrangement followed by M. Milne-Edwards, those 

 that we have obtained or know to have been obtained 

 from the shores, as well as from the immediate neigh- 

 bourhood of Jersey, giving a very brief outline 

 description of each, together with its favourable 

 haunts, as well as the mode of obtaining it. 



Brachyura. 



SleiwryncJius rostratiis. Carapace roughly trian- 

 gular, small, pale reddish-brown ; legs long and 

 slender ; rostrum short ; antennrt;, basal joint with- 

 out spines. Frequents weeds and stony ground in 

 moderately deep water. Obtained by dredging, or 

 may be found at exceptionally low tides. 



Statorynchus longirostris. Carapace and legs as 

 above ; rostrum long and slender, curved upwards ; 

 basal joint of antennoe armed with two spines. 

 Localities as above, but in deeper water. 



