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brown with transverse red lines on the abdomen. Length, 

 three inches. 



Pennant records this as having been found by Dr. Bor- 

 lase, on Careg Killas, in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, and a spe- 

 cimen, procured in Cornwall in 1856, was sent to Sir Win. 

 Jardine, Bart. It occurs among the Channel Islands, as I 

 am informed by Dr. Lukis of Guernsey. This species 

 abounds in Greenland, where, according to Otho Fabricius,* 

 it forms the principal food of the Alca arctica. 



Fam. PALINURID^J, Leach. 



Body nearly cylindrical. Outer anteniise very thick and 

 long ; basilar joint very large. Legs all ending in one toe : 

 sternal plate very wide. (Plate VI. fig. 2 a represents one 

 of the outer foot-jaws.) 



There are many species of this family in different parts of 

 the world. They are generally esteemed as food. Siebold 

 says that the P. Jo.ponicus is much prized in Japan, and 

 that the Japanese takeout the meat and viscera, and having 

 dried the shell, exhibit it in some of their festivities at the 

 New Year, as the symbol of old-age.f 



* Fauna Groenlandica, p. 243. f Dehaan, Fauna Japonica, p. 159. 



