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in the Firth of Forth, off Prestonpans and Port Seaton, 

 where it is often incrusted with minute algee and mud, so 

 as to be easily overlooked. Mr. M' Andrew dredged it in 

 Loch Fyne. On the south coast of England it is met with 

 in several places, and also on the Irish coast, as in Belfast 

 Bay and elsewhere. The Rev. Alfred Norman remarks that 

 it is always found on hard ground and in deep water : he 

 finds it abundantly in the Firth of Clyde and at Oban. 



This is sometimes called the Strawberry Crab, from its 

 being covered over with pink tubercles on a white ground, 

 so that it has some resemblance to the fruit whence the 

 name is derived. These tubercles consist of short cylindri- 

 cal columns, truncated at the end, and terminating in po- 

 lished red or white hemispherical knobs. Mr. Gosse, in his 

 'Aquarium/ p. 137, has given an account of its habits. 

 He remarks : — " The Strawberry Crab is a climber. If it 

 were a terrestrial animal, I should say its habits are arbo- 

 real. True, it now and then wanders over the bottom of its 

 abode, with slow and painful march, the hind feet held up 

 at an angle above the level of the back ; but generally it 

 seeks an elevated position. We usually see it in the morn- 

 ing perched on the summit of some one of the more bushy 

 weeds in the Aquarium, as the Ckondnis or P/ij/llojj/wra 



