48 Guide to Crustacea. 



Table-case on tlic South Coast of England, and the much larger .S. 



^°- °- mantis (Fig. 29), of which specimens are exhibited fi'om 



the Mediterranean, has been found, very rarely, oil' the 



coast of Cornwall. Both species arc used for food in Mediter- 

 ranean countries. 



The Stomatopoda have a prolonged larval development, in the 



Fig. 29. 

 Sqiiilla mantift, about one-half natural size. [Table-case No. 8.] 



course of which the larvae assume very striking forms, and often 

 attain a large size. They were formerly supposed to be inde- 

 pendent species of Crustacea, and received the generic names of 

 Erichthus, Alima, etc. The " species " Lysiocrichthus edirardsii, 

 of which a specimen is exhibited, has been found to be the larval 

 state of LysiosquiUa glahriuscula. 



