178 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
SOME NOTES ON THE STALK-EYED CRUSTACEA 
OF GREAT YARMOUTH. 
By Artuur PATTERSON. 
THE same remarks which have in a previous contribution 
been applied to the Fishes* hold good in relation to the 
Crustacea, as far as unsuitability of the tides, &c., to their 
habits are concerned—“ the seaboard in the more immediate 
neighbourhood of Great Yarmouth is not, in my estimation, 
favourable, .... the flat, sandy, shifting nature of the bottom 
affording but little shelter, although in the finer months it 
abounds in (certain) Crustacea and Entomostraca.” With the 
exception of these common species which, in individual numbers, 
may be termed “legion,” the search for rare and curious forms 
proves a very unsatisfactory one, an almost entire absence of sea- 
weeds, and no rocky bottom at all, denying harbour (or shelter), 
while other conditions that appear to be necessary to the welfare 
of the family are also absent. Such a comparatively barren 
field has found few, if any, local workers interested in this 
particular branch of zoological research. The Pagets referred 
to this when cursorily noticing the Mollusca and Crustacea t— 
“Excellent opportunities would be found for pursuing the study — 
of a portion of a most extensive class hitherto entirely neglected 
here, and which do not seem to have received nearly the atten- 
tion which they deserve in any part of the kingdom: these are 
the Mollusca, or shells, and the Crustacea of our coasts, in which — 
there is a most wide and unbeaten field of interest.” 
It was in 1889 that I first commenced recording such Stalk- 
eyed Crustaceans as came to hand, and till then not a list had 
been made. It was to the shrimpers my thoughts naturally 
turned, for no better allies could be found, if they could only be 
* “The Marine and Fresh-water Fishes of Great Yarmouth and its 
neighbouring Coasts, Rivers, and Broads,” ‘The Zoologist,’ 1897, pp. 589-567. 
+‘ Sketch of the Natural History of Yarmouth and its Neighbourhood,’ 
by C. J. & James Paget, 1834; introduction, p. xvi. 
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