SHRIMPS AND PRAWNS. 569 
creatures can be taken plentifully. The Lobster is not much of a rover, 
seldom straying far from the spot on which it was hatched. 
The Lobsters are caught in creels or pots, like the crabs, but with greater 
ease and economy, as they are very fond of meat, be it fresh or tainted, and 
even if it should be putrefying will be attracted to it. 
Like many other crustaceans, the Lobster is a most combative animal, 
quarrelling on the slightest pretext, and fighting most furiously. In these 
combats it mostly kes a claw or a leg, being obliged to discard entirely 
a wounded member. A fresh leg or claw sprouts from the scar, and it is 
to this circumstance that the frequently unequal size of lobster-claws is owing. 
Lobsters indeed part with these valuable members with strange indifference, 
and will sometimes shake them off on hearing a sudden noise. 
If the fishermen find that they have wounded a Lobster, they have 
recourse to a very strange but perfectly efficacious remedy. Supposing one 
of the claws to be wounded, the creature would soon bleed to death unless 
SAND-HOPPER..—( 7u.litrus. THE SHRIMP.—(Crangon vulgaris.) 
saltator.) THE PRAWN.-—(Palemon serratus.) 
some means were taken whereby the flow of blood may be stopped. The 
method adapted by the fishermen consists in twisting off the entire claw. A 
membrane immediately forms over the wound, and the bleeding is stopped. 
The new limb that is to supply the place of that which was lost always 
sprouts from the centre of the scar. : 
THE next family includes the true SHRIMPS, and contains but one gerus. 
The SHRIMP, which is so familiar on our tables, and which, until the marine 
aquaria became so common, was equally unknown in its living state, inhabits 
our shores, where it is produced in countless myriads. In every little pool 
that is left by the retiring tide the Shrimps may be seen in profusion, betray- 
ing their preseuce by their quick darting movements as they dash about in 
the water, and ever and anon settle upon some spot, flinging up a cloud of 
sand as they scuffle below its surface, their backs being just level with the 
surrounding sand. In consequence of this manceuvre, the fishermen call 
them “Sand-raisers.” The small prawns are often confounded with the 
Shrimps and popularly called by the same title. They can, however, be 
easily distinguished from each other, the beak of the prawn being long, 
and deeply saw-edged, while that of the Shrimp is quite short and smooth. 
OUR attention is now drawn toa very large group of crustaceans, called 
