ii6 THE LIFE OF CRUSTACEA 



Broad-clawed Porcelain Crab (Porcella7ta platycheles) 

 employed its third pair of maxillipeds, which are 

 thickly fringed with long feathered hairs, in making 

 alternate casting movements " exactly in the manner 

 of the fringed hand of a Barnacle, of which both the 

 organ and the action strongly reminded me." 



