Class V. ASTACUS. LOBSTER. 



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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. Jg. 1 . 



Squilla Crangon. Rondel. 54J. 

 Cancer Squilla. Lin, Syst. 



1051. Gm. Lin. 2988. 



Faun. Suec. No. 2037- 

 Squilla Batava. Seb. Mus. iii. 

 p. 55, tab. xxi.^zg. 9. 10. 



Squilla fusca. Easier, ii. 30. 8. Squilla. 



tab. m.jig. 5. Prawn. 



Squilla Gibba. Rondel. 54Q. 

 C. Squilla. Herbst. Cane. ii. 



55. t. 27. f. 1. 

 Astacus serratus. Br. Zool. 



iv. 1Q. 



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. xvii. Jig. 1. 



Astacus Squilla. Br. Zool. iv. lg. 



L. with a snout like the prawn, but deeper and 

 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 Plot. Hist. Staffords. 185. 



9. Albes- 

 cens. 

 White. 



