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Smaller Crustaceans (p. 70), especially Hermit-crabs (fig. 135 

 and fig. 136), bearing stolen shells with sea-anemones, 

 or sometimes sponges, adhering to them. The common 

 Green Crab (Carcinus, fig. 137). Noticeable is the Bashful- 

 crab (Calappa, fig. 138), half globular, with reddish spots, 

 scarcely looking like a crab. Other crabs are Dromia 

 (fig. 140), carrying about large orange-coloured or white 

 sponges (Suberites); Dorippe (fig. 142), very flat; Ilia 

 (fig. 141), round, small; Lupa (fig. 139), much like 

 the Green Crab; Eriphia (fig. 144), large and powerful; 

 Inachus (fig. 145), with long, slender legs; Pisa (fig. 146). 

 Lambrus (fig. 143), with long sideways claws; Prawn 

 (Palaemon, fig. 147). The Mantis-prawn (Squilla, fig. 148) 

 is of a lobster-form, half transparent with black eye-like 

 spots on its tail. 



Fig. 135. Pagurus striatus in a whelk- 

 shell and bearing three Anemones. 

 V-2 nat. size. p. 71. 



Fig. 136. Eupagurus 



Prideauxii in a shell and 



bearing the Anemone 



Adamsia palliata, 



J /2- na t. size. p. 71. 



