PANDALUS ANNULICORNIS. 
Tas. XL. 
P. rostro multidentato ascendente apice emarginato; antennis inferis rubro amnulatis, interne 
spinulosis. 
Fig. 1, Pandalus annulicornis mag. nat. 2, antenna superior amplificata. 3, antenna infer. 
magnif. 4, Palpus pediformis amp. 5, Pes anticus adactylus, 6 et 7, Pedum par secundum. 
8, Pes tertii paris. 9, Pes quart. paris. 10, Pes quinti paris. 11, Unguis amplificatus. 12 et 
13, Abdominis segmenti antici organa sexuum differentias forte exhibentia? 14, Cauda amplificata. 
This highly interesting species was discovered in Zetland, and in St. Andrew’s Bay, Scotland, 
by the Rev. Dr. Fleming, who most kindly gave me the specimens I originally described in the 
Edinburgh Encyclopedia. It was observed also by Montagu, who found it on the coast of 
Devon; and by Mrs. D. Turner it was noticed at Yarmouth, and pointed out to Mr. J. D. C. 
Sowerby, as distinct from the common prawn. 
It is used at Yarmouth as an article of food; and is at that place so much esteemed for the 
table, as to afford constant employment during the summer season to several fishermen, who take 
it in abundance at a considerable distance from the shore, and name it from that circumstance 
the sea-shrimp. 
I have seen but one living specimen, which was taken at the junction of the rivers Tamer 
and Tavy in Devon: the whole animal was cinereous; antenne alternately annulated with red 
and whitish; pediform palpi and four anterior legs spotted with deep red, the other legs with 
light red; thorax and abdomen speckled with red, the former on each side with two streaks, 
composed of red spots, placed on a testaceous ground, the latter also with several oblique 
streaks of a similar color. 
The last joint of the pediform palpi is very bristly, and the spines at the apex are strong: 
the spines on the upper part of the middle process of the tail, in all the specimens that I have 
seen, were ten in number: the denticulations on the upper part of the rostrum begin at the base, 
and are continued a little beyond the middle, and in some instances to within a third from the 
apex: the left of the second pair of legs, in those examined, was longest; between the eye and 
the squama of the inferior antenna, is a small spine. 
