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A COBNISH FAUNA. 
“ Common in crab boats. There appears to be two other species 
on our coasts which I have been accustomed to call JEsop’s 
Shrimps, from their habit of bending up the back into a hump, 
but further observation is necessary to decide whether they are 
known to naturalists.” 
One of these is the following. 
Pandauus THOMPSON!. — Bell, 8talli-eijed Crust, p. 290. 
Pandalus Jeffreysii. — Spence Bate, Ann. Nat. Hist., and Brit. 
Assoc. Bep., 1867, jj. 278. 
Occasionally on rocky ground in about 6 fathoms of water. 
Genus, Pau^emon. — Fair. 
“ Carapace elongated into a serrated rostrum of considerable 
length.” Pirst pair of antennse on three branches. Pirst pair of 
legs small, slender, chelate ; second pair larger and chelate. 
PaLjEmon seebatus. — Common Prawn. — Pennant; Leach, Malac, 
pi. 48; Milne Edwards, Jlist. des Crust, t. ii, p. 389; Bell, 
Stalk-eyed Crust., p. 302. 
“A common species, found of largest size on the rockiest coasts, 
where it seeks the shelter of large stones and places overhung 
with weeds. It prefers the stillest waters, advancing and 
retiring with the tide ; in summer preferring water that has a 
distinct feeling of warmth, and in winter going into what is, at 
that season, less cold than at the margin, but never far from 
land.” 
“ It is sought after as a delicacy, the usual method of taking it 
is with a bag net suspended from a circular ring of iron at the 
end of a pole. Another method is by small pots, resembling 
those employed for the Crab and Lobster. The Prawn is a 
tempting bait for most sea fish.” 
It inhabit all our coasts from about forty fathoms. 
PaujEmon squilla. — Linn., Fair . ; Leach, Malac, pi. 43 ; Milne 
Edwa/rds, Jlist. des Crust., t. ii, p. 300 ; Bell, Stalk-eyed 
Crust, p. 305. 
“ Scarce, and generally confounded with the last named species.” 
According to Leach it is tolerably abundant on the coast of 
Devon. 
