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recorded from the Hebrides eighty in all.— G. H. Wailes, New 

 York. 



[Other eleven species will be found in Mr J. M. Brown's St 

 Kilda list, published in the May number of this magazine.— Eds.] 



Xantho hydrophilus, a rare Scottish Crab, in the Outer 

 Hebrides. — A fine male specimen of Xantho hydrophilus (Herbst) 

 (X rivulosus, auct.) has been forwarded for identification by John 

 Anderson, Esq., M.A., of Stornoway. It was "found alive on the 

 beach at Stornoway during the summer of 1909." The carapace is 

 normal in colour — a rich yellow tinged with burnt sienna and red, in a 

 tortoise-shell pattern — but the pincers, which are usually "brown, 

 sometimes but little darker than the rest of the shell," are bluish 

 black, exactly like those of Xantho incisus, a near relative. Xantho 

 hydrophilus frequents rocky shores, where it is to be found under 

 stones, or crouching in rocky clefts between tidemarks. It is a 

 southern form, commonest in British waters on the borders of the 

 English Channel, but exceedingly rare in Scotland. A solitary 

 example was captured at the mouth of the Clyde estuary in 1899, 

 by the Fishery Board's cruiser Garland (Scott, Brit. Ass. Hand- 

 book, Glasgow, 1 901, p. 328) ; and one young specimen was dredged 

 in 1867, near the Island of Balta in the Shetlands (Norman, Brit. 

 Ass. Reports, Norwich, 1869, p. 263). Carrington and Lovett, in 

 their "Notes and Observations on British Stalk-eyed Crustacea," 

 say, indefinitely, that this species "has been recorded from the 

 Shetlands and Hebrides" {Zoologist, 1881, p. 457), but I have 

 been unable to trace any definite record from the latter islands. — 

 James Ritchie, Royal Scottish Museum. 



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