A HISTORY OF SUSSEX 



the name of this valued contributor might have been appended as guaran- 

 teeing almost all the records of decapod species. On the other hand, 

 it would be improper to conceal the doubt which he has expressed to 

 me by letter as to the occurrence at Hastings of Goneplax angulata, 

 Galathea nexa and Eupagurus prideaux, ' in view of the fact that the 

 Hastings boats go far afield to the French coast and Channel Islands for 

 their fishing,' Great weight must be attached to the opinion of so 

 experienced an observer, but as all these species are known from our 

 south-west coast, it is not absolutely improbable that they should be 

 found also within a reasonable distance of the Sussex shore. 



Though the species here reviewed have been on the whole rather 

 numerous, they form but a small fraction of all the English Crustacea, 

 and almost certainly they will eventually prove to form only a small 

 fraction of the Crustacea of this county, but that will not be until the 

 more minute forms, and especially the marine and freshwater entomostra- 

 cans, have been made the subject of the same assiduous pursuit as that of 

 late so advantageously bestowed upon the higher groups. 



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