32 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
were the shrimps feeding on? (8) Did you see anything 
eating the shrimps? (9) What has been the general 
weather and state of sea this month? (10) Have you any 
other remarks to make ?”’ 
Last year I reduced the reports to a tabular form* 
showing the answers to each question in each month at 
each locality. There is no need to construct a similar 
table this year as on the whole the answers are the same 
as before, I shall therefore refer readers to last year’s 
table and mention merely the few points of difference or 
of special interest which these reports present. 
In January, in all localities, the shrimps were smaller 
than in the previous year: the weather was colder, frosty. 
Mr. Ascroft writes from Lytham in February that there 
are “‘a great number of Crangon allman amongst the 
shrimps.”’ 
The prawners are reported as finding lumps of the sand 
tubes built up by the gregarious annelids Sabellaria 
alveolata to be full of prawns. This year again there is 
much evidence that few shrimps are to be obtained in 
cold and in unsettled weather. The food matters generally 
attributed to the shrimps are:—worms, shore worms, 
long fine green worms, dead fish, sweet cockles and lug- 
worms, stones and shells, and finally ‘‘ suction.” One 
correspondent mentions that sometimes the anterior end 
of the shrimp is coloured green by the green worms it has 
eaten. Some of these matters require investigation. 
By universal consent the worst enemies of the shrimp 
are crabs (Carcumus moenas and Polybius henslowt) and 
fishes, especially whiting, young haddock, small cod, 
skates, and flukes. Mr. Ascroft mentions in February 
having taken a quart of shrimps out of a skate’s stomach. 
It is reported from Parkgate that in the summer time the 
*See Trans. L’pool Biol. Soc., vol. v., p. 32, 1890, 
