NEPHROPS. 105 



Gen. 37. NEPHROPS, Leach. 



Beak slender, and furnished with several teeth on each 

 side. Eyes large and kidney-shaped. Lamellar appendage 

 of outer antennae is wide and long. Fore legs long and 

 prismatic ; hand of the two following pairs compressed. 

 Last ring of carapace slightly capable of motion. 



Nephrops Norvegicus, Linn. sp. Norway Lobster. 

 (Plate Till. fig. 1.) — Carapace pubescent, armed with points 

 on the stomachal region, and with three granular lines on 

 the posterior half. Hands furnished with four serrated 

 crests. Abdomen with transverse and oblique grooves 

 filled with a close-set pubescence. 



Common on the Scottish and some parts of the Irish 

 coasts. Dr. Howden says that in the Eirth of Forth it is 

 common in deep water. It is much esteemed as food. 

 The Rev. Alfred Norman takes it in the Eirth of Clyde. 



Tribe CARIDITA. 



The Crustacea of the next four families belong to a 

 division named Salicoques by the French. Their body is 

 generally laterally compressed ; the abdomen very large, 



