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Habitat. — Dredged in 8 fathoms, off little Cumbrae; 

 and taken by the dip or sweep-net, at low-water, 

 Portloy, Cumbrae, and in the surface-net after sun- 

 set. It has also been recorded as having been taken 

 in the Moray Firth, in rock-pools at Penzance, and in 

 2 to 5 fathoms, Shetland. 



Genus Podocerus, Leach. 

 podocerus falcatus, Montagu. 



Cancer (Gammavus) falcatus, Montagu, Linn. Trans., 

 ix. (1808), p. 100, pi. 5, fig. 1, 2. S juv. 



Jassa falcata, Leach, Edin. Encyc, vii., p. 433. S juv. 



Cerapus pelagicus, Milne Edwards, Hist. d. Crust. 

 (1840), iii., p. 361. <J juv. 



Cerapus falcatus, Thompson, Ann. and Mag. Nat. 

 Hist., xx. (1847), p. 244. 



Podocerus pulchellus, Milne Edwards, Ann. des Sci. 

 Nat. Hist., t. xx. (1830) p. 384. $. 



Podocerus calcaratus, Rathke, Acta Acad. Leop., 

 xx. (1843), p. 91, t. iv., fig. 9. <J ? . 



Podocerus falcatus, Spence Bate, Cat. Amph. Crust. 

 Brit. Mus. (1862), p. 255, pi. xliv., fig. 1. 



Podocerus monodon, Heller, Beitr. &c. Deukschr. 

 d. K. K. Acad. d. Wissensch. (1857), 26 B., 2 Abth., 

 p. 45, tab. iv., fig. 4, 5. ? . 



Habitat — Taken on Millport Pier at low -water, 

 occurring plentifully on the tufts of Ceramium 

 rubru?n (chiefly P. falcatus) ; on the Tan Buoy (P. 

 pulchellus, together with P. pelagicus in ova) ; between 

 the Allans, among sea-weed, in 2 to 3 fathoms ; and 

 at low-water, Portloy, Cumbrae. Also taken in the 

 trawl-net, off Dunoon, in 4 fathoms. All the three 

 — falcatus, pulchellus, and pelagicxis — are generally 

 found on piers and buoys. 



PODOCERUS VARIEGATUS, Leach. 



Podocerus variegatus, Leach, Edin. Encyc. (1813-14), 

 vii., p. 433. ? . 



Podocerus cdpillatus, Rathke, Beitr. z. Fauna Nor- 

 wegens, Nov. Act. Leop., xx., p. 894, pi. iv., fig. 8. £. 



