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and creeping Corophium : this species is fond of a catch of 

 crustaceans. 



My first good " Shrimp " find of the year turned up on 

 February 26th. I happened to call on a shrimper friend with a 

 hope of persuading him to preserve for me any strange indivi- 

 duals he might meet with in his shrimp-nets. 



" My husband's got something funny here ! " said Mrs. 

 Spanton, placing a small scent-bottle in my hand, inside which, 

 swimming in methylated spirits, was an unmistakable Sowerby's 

 Hippolyte (Hippolyte spinus), with its stout rostrum and cock's- 

 comb ridge of teeth above. It was the first Spanton had ever 

 seen, and is new to my list of East Norfolk species. This 

 shrimper, who is collecting " curios " for his own amusement, is 

 an exceedingly helpful and intelligent man, and has rendered me 

 signal service. 



Early in March I haunted the offices of a number of friendly 

 solicitors and others who do business with paste, and begged all 

 the empty " Gloy " bottles they could let me have. I soon 

 mustered quite a respectable number of these handy receptacles. 

 These I washed and fitted with bungs, half filling them with 

 formalin, and distributed twenty-odd among my shrimper friends, 

 who placed them in their boats, promising to drop in any strange 

 Shrimp, or the like, they might meet with. I also employed, at 

 a small remuneration, a crippled shrimper, who, in his bicycle 

 chair, collected and distributed the bottles at stated intervals. 

 Eesults have justified the trouble taken. Two fish new to the 

 county, viz. Jago's Goldsinny (Ctenolabrus rupestris) and the 

 Megrim (Amoglossus latema) have come to hand, besides several 

 Prawns and Shrimps hitherto unidentified in this locality, and 

 some other interesting marine invertebrates. 



A Hermit Crab (Pagurus bernhardus) was brought to me in 

 April that had for its hut the well-polished shell of a Common 

 Snail. Amathilla homari has turned up most abundantly this 

 summer ; shrimpers know it as the " Sawback," a very appro- 

 priate nickname. Several Common Prawns (Palcemon serratus) 

 were taken in April and May, one being netted on Breydon on 

 April 17th, a very unusual habitat for this " rough-ground "- 

 loving species. Palcemon squilla, known here as the "Breydon 



