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Diogenes vaeiaks {Costa). Oue specimen only of this hermit-crab 

 was taken, in the cheese-cloth trawl, on the bar, outside Salcombe 

 Harbour. 



Porcellana longicornis (Penn.). Recorded only from dredgings 

 taken between Snape's Point and the Salstone. It was most probably, 

 however, taken elsewhere. 



Porcellana pl.itygheles {Penn). Recorded only from under rocks, 

 etc., between Sandhill Point and South Sands Bay. 



Galathea squamifera. Leach. A few were taken in the dredge, 

 between Salstone and Snape's Point, and one in a prawn-pot in 4 to 5 

 fathoms off Ditch End. 



Galathea intermedia, Lilljelorg. This Galathea was taken very 

 commonly in the dredge between Salstone and Snape's Point, and also, 

 but not so commonly, between Snape's Point and the mouth of the 

 harbour. 



Palinurus vulgaris {Latr). The "crayfish," according to the Salcombe 

 fishermen, was sometimes taken when tuck-netting, and was occasionally 

 found in holes at the edge of the zostera banks, 



Gebia stellata {Montagu). This interesting crustacean, first described 

 by Montagu from specimens obtained at Salcombe, was found most 

 commonly on the zostera bank opposite the Marine Hotel, and in the 

 muddy sand below the Ferry House, a few being taken in other localities, 

 i.e. one on the west shore of the Salstone, two in the zostera between 

 Snape's Point and Salcombe town, and two under the Marine Hotel. 

 The burrows do not appear to be of very great length ; they are nearly 

 always branched, some of the branches being vertical, at their ends at 

 least. Two or more of these branches open at the surface, whilst 

 others are blind. Leach records burrows of a hundred feet or more in 

 length on the shores of Plymouth Sound, but none of those we followed 

 were more than two or three feet long. 



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Norman found Gehia at Salcombe in the locality where we have now 

 found it to be abundant (eastern side of harbour). [Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 1899, p. 289.] 



HoMARUS VULGARIS {Milne- Uchvards). Occasionally taken in shove- 

 nets, and also when tuck-netting. 



Crangon vulgaris, Fahnciiis. On all the mud-flats in the Kings- 

 bridge estuary, and in the upper parts of Salcombe Harbour, during the 

 time we were at Salcombe (June to September), large numbers of young 

 of the common shrimp {Crangon vulgaris) were found, wherever pools 

 of water were left on the surface of the mud. Full-grown specimens, 

 or specimens of a marketable size, on the other hand, we only took on 

 the bar outside the harbour, never in the estuary itself, and from 

 information we received from local fishermen it appears that there is no 



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