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the Crustacean that is thus gathered from the inaccessible depths of the ocean, hut 

 often the rare shell, with its still rarer inhabitant. The radiated animal and the cu- 

 rious zoophyte will also be found congregated together there ; all of them no doubt at 

 times mutilated or partly digested, but not unfrequently fresh and complete, as if newly 

 past the voracious jaws. 



Through the agency of Widow Scott and her son John, of the fishing village of 

 Stotfield, some stomachs, chiefly of the cod-fish, were procured and examined last 

 winter and spring, fully eight miles inland from the southern shores of the Moray 

 firth, and the following species, of those as yet published in Bell's ' Crustacea,' were 

 identified as denizens of this arm of the German Ocean. 



Long-legged Spider Crab (Bell's Hist. p. 2). Three specimens. 



Slender Spider Crab (p. 6). Two specimens, mutilated, but enough left to show 

 the species. 



Scorpion Spider Crab (p. 13). One specimen, imperfect; but the four small cha- 

 racteristic tubercles distinct on the carapace. 



Inachus Dorynchus (p. 16). One specimen. 



Slender. legged Spider Crab (p. 18). Five specimens of this very rare Crustacean, 

 some of them perfect, others without the full complement of legs; but the carapace 

 whole in all the five. 



Hyas araneus (p. 3l). Many specimens of this crab have been found. Six of 

 them were taken from two ordinary-sized stomachs, and measured from 1% to 2§ inches 

 long. Another, 3 inches long by 2J broad, was found on the shore of the Moray firth, 

 near Stotfield. It seems to be a Crustacean as often preyed upon by the fish of the 

 firth as any other, perhaps more so, judging from its frequent appearance in the 

 stomachs hitherto examined in this district. 



Hyas coarctatus (p. 35). Although not so often met with as the preceding, yet by 

 no means rare. Two very small, probably young, specimens have also been taken and 

 preserved. 



Cancer Pagurus, " the parten " (p. 59), and Carcinas Mcenas, " the crab " (p. 76), 

 are far more seldom met with in the stomachs of fish than their numbers along the 

 shores of the firth would lead one to expect. This may be owing to their living nearer 

 land than the feeding-ground of the fish. 



Portumnus variegatus. Several rather bleached specimens were last month picked 

 up on the shore near the Covesea lighthouse. 



Portunus. At least two species of this genus have been collected. They form a 

 considerable portion of the contents of some stomachs. 



Pennant's Ibalia (p. 141). Two specimens of this most beautiful species ; one of 

 them complete. 



Circular Crab (p. 153). By no means rare. As often found in the stomachs 

 hitherto examined as any other species, excepting Hyas araneus. 



Pagurus Bernhardus (p. 171). In great abundance and variety, as to size, among 

 rocks within tide-mark. 



Minute Porcelain Crab (p. 193). Found at times very plentiful, both in the 

 stomachs of cod and haddock, and also among the roots of the larger Fuci on the 

 shore, and on the rocks called ' Haliman's skerries.' 



Galathea. At least two species of this genus have been found. 



Munida. Some years ago a long-armed Munida, if recollection serves aright, was 

 obtained from the roots of Fuci lying on the shore, and sent to Professor Bell. 



