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in the Eirth of Eorth, off Prestonpans and Port Seaton, 
where it is often incrusted with minute algse and mud, so 
as to be easily overlooked. Mr. M 'Andrew dredged it in 
Loch Pyne. On the south coast of England it is met with 
in several places, and also on the Irish coast, as in Belfast 
Bay and elsewhere. The Rev. Alfred Norman remarks that 
it is always found on hard ground and in deep water : he 
finds it abundantly in the Eirth of Clyde and at Oban. 
This is sometimes called the Strawberry Crab, from its 
beings covered over with pink tubercles on a white ground, 
so that it has some resemblance to the fruit whence the 
name is derived. These tubercles consist of short cylindri- 
cal columns, truncated at the end, and terminating in po- 
lished red or white hemispherical knobs. Mr. Gosse, in his 
'Aquarium/ p. 137, has given an account of its habits. 
He remarks " The Strawberry Crab is a climber. If it 
were a terrestrial animal, I should say its habits are arbo- 
real. True, it now and then wanders over the bottom of its 
abode, with slow and painful march, the hind feet held up 
at an angle above the level of the back ; but generally it 
seeks an elevated position. We usually see it in the morn- 
ing perched on the summit of some one. of the more bushy 
weeds in the Aquarium, as the Ckondrus or Vliyllojphora 
