Class V. ASTACUS. LOBSTER. . U 



banks. Cardan says that this species is a sign 

 of the goodness of water ; for in the best water, 

 they are boiled into the reddest color. * Tab. 

 xvi./o-. 1. 



Squilla Cfangon. Rondel. 547. Squilla fusca. Baster, ii. 30. 8. Squilla. 

 Cancer Squilla. Lin. Syst. ial.in.fg.5. Prawn. 



1031. Gm. Lin. 2988. Squilla Gibba. Rondel. 5 Ag. 



Faun. Suec. No. 2037- C. Squilla. Herhst. Cane. ii. 

 Squilla Batava. Seh. Mus. iii. 55. t. 21. f. 1. 



p. 55. tah.-x.yii. Jig. Q. 10. Astacus serratus. Br. Zool. 



iv. 19. ... 



; fe;;3i i:' I:-- ■' ■.-_-- -■■■■■ ■ ■■ •■ - 



L. with a long serrated snout bending upwards ; 

 three pair of very long filiform feelers ; claws 

 small, furnished with two fangs ; smooth tho- 

 rax; five joints to the tail; middle caudal fin 

 subulated ; two outmost flat and rounded. 



Frequent in several shores, amidst loose 

 stones ; sometimes found at sea, and taken on 

 the surface over thirty fathoms depth of water ; 

 cinereous when fresh; of a fine red when 

 boiled. Tab. x\ii. Jig. 1. 



Astacus Squilla. Br. Zool. iv. 19. 9. Albes- 



cens. 



L. with a snout like the prawn, but deeper and if'^/'ife. 

 thinner ; and feelers longer in proportion to the 

 bulk; the sub-caudal fins rather larger ; is at full 

 growth not above half the size of the former. 



* Quoted by P/o/. Hist. St affords. \Sb. 



