Class V. LOBSTERS. 19 



Inhabits many of the rivers of England \ lodged 

 jn holes which they form in the clayey banks. 

 Cardan fays that this fpecies is a fign of the good- 

 fiefs of water-, for in the beft water, they are boiled 

 into the reddeft color *. 



Squilla Crangon. Rondel. 547. Serratus. 



28. P*awr« 



L. with a long ferrated fhont bending upwards ; 

 three pair of very long filiform feelers -, claws 

 fmall, furnifhed with two fangs ; fmooth thorax ; 

 five joints to the tail ; middle caudal fin fubu- 

 lated ; two outmoft flat and rounded. 



Frequent in feveral mores, amidft loofe Hones % 

 fometimes found at fea, and. taken on the furface 

 Over thirty fathoms depth of water; cinereous when 

 frefh \ of a fine red when boiled. 



Cancer Sqailla. Lin. Syft. 105 1. Faun. Suet, No. 203 7. Squilla. 



Squilla Batava. Seb. Muf. iii. p. 55. tab. xxi. fig. 9. 10. 29, White q 



Squilla fufca. Bafter ii. 30. tab. iii.^. 5. 

 Squilla Gibba. Rondel. 549. 



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

 thinner; and feelers longer in proportion to the 

 bulk •, the fab-caudal fins rather larger ; is at full, 

 growth not above half the fize of the former. 



* Quoted by Plot. Hift. Stafford/. 185, 



C 2 Inhabit^- 



