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List of Land and Fresh-water Crustacea obtained. 



1. Palaemon jamaicensis Oliv. "Crawfish." Prawn. 



Common in the fresh-water streams and extensively used as food, 

 being of excellent flavor. 



One or more species of small grey shrimp were frequently seen in 

 the river at Bass en-ville, but owing to their very lively habits and 

 our lack of proper means we were unable to procure any, 



2. Cenobita diogenes Latr. " Sojer " (Soldier). Hermit Crab. 

 Not very common. 



"Found only on the windward or Atlantic side of the island.'' — (a. h. v.) 



3. G-ecarcillUS ruricola Latr. " Crabe." Pat. and Fr. (Crab). Land Crab. 

 Common, but not found among the mountains nor at any great ele- 

 vation. Very good eating and much used for food. 



4. Pseudotelphusa dentata (H. Milne-Edw.). "Suriqne," Pat. Land Crab. 

 Pseudotelphusa tenidpes. R. T. Pocock (Ann. and Mag. NTat. FTist., vol. iii, p. 7, 



1889). 



Very common in the interior and among the mountains. We 

 found this species extremely abundant in the neighborhood of Bass- 

 en-ville. They were seen running around everywhere in the woods, 

 though also found along the shores of the streams and in the streams 

 themselves, but apparently it made no difference whether water was 

 near or not, though of course the ground is everywhere very damp 

 from the frequent rains. When disturbed or pursued they run 

 very rapidly and generally get into some hole or under a log or stone, 

 but I could never see that they had any particular hole or burrow. 

 When unable to reach some such shelter they sit back on the hind 

 part of the carapax, after the manner of our common Fiddler Crab, 

 and defend themselves savagely. By throwing out a piece of meat 

 a number could always be brought around the camp in a very shoi't 

 time. 



Though not usually sold in the market, like the former species, 

 and not considered so good eating, they are by no means bad, as I 

 can testify from personal experience, and they are frequentlj^ eaten 

 by the natives up among the mountains. 



Mr. R. I. Pocock in the Ann. and Mag., vol. iii, p. 6, 1889, has 

 recorded an additional species of land crab {G. lateralis), and sev- 

 eral additional species of shrimp and prawns collected in Dominica 

 by Mr, Ram age. 



