CORDINER’S LITTLE LOBSTER 371 
variations on the same theme, as Darwinia and Darwinella. 
Harger points out that Fleming’s reference of Astacilla to 
the Rev. Charles Cordiner, 1784, is no proof that it was 
published or described at that date. But in a work en- 
titled ‘Remarkable Ruins and Romantic Prospects of 
North Britain with Ancient Monuments and Singular 
Subjects of Natural History by the Rev. Charles Cordiner 
of Banff. London, 1795,’ there is a section headed ‘ Asta- 
cillee, Purple Doris, &c.,’ containing the interesting passage 
which follows :— 
‘One very lively species of little lobsters, which had 
taken up their dwelling among these coralines, seemed on 
account of its novelty to merit the attention of a particular 
drawing. 
‘Their general form and appearance in their natural 
state, and the size of life, are carefully represented at a, a, 
a; an elaborate delineation of the microscope, after a 
minute investigation of the particular structure of its 
several parts, is inserted above at A. That will more 
distinctly express to the curious the peculiarities of the 
animal than any specific distinctions which could be nar- 
rated. The eye appeared as a regular arrangement of 
bright specks, in circular rows, as at the figure I. 
‘The diminutive ASTACILL2, of the general name of 
lobsters, is applied at present, as a common characteristic, 
until one more particularly appropriate may be fixed on to 
distinguish it by; for these are a species that do not ap- 
pear to have been yet recognized among the varieties of 
British insects.’ 
Seeing that this account is accompanied by an unmis- 
takable figure of Astacilla longicornis (Sowerby), it seems 
only proper to uphold the priority of Cordiner’s generic 
name, and perhaps the name of the family ought to become 
Astacillide. The British species are Astacilla longicornis 
(Sowerby), Astacilla intermedia (Goodsir), Astacilla gracilis 
(Goodsir), Astacilla damnoniensis, Stebbing, Astacilla Des- 
hayesi (Lucas), and Astacilla dilatata, Sars. This last 
and others of the genus named by the same author are 
found on the coasts of Norway. Astacilla granulata, Sars, 
