palinubidj:. 
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brown with transverse red lines on the abdomen. Length, 
three inches. 
Pennant records this as having been found by Dr. Bor- 
lase, on Careg Killas, in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, and a spe- 
cimen, procured in Cornwall in 1856, was sent to Sir Vm. 
Jardine, Bart. It occurs among the Channel Islands, as I 
am informed by Dr. Lukis of Guernsey. This species 
abounds in Greenland, where, according to Otho Pabricius,^ 
it forms the principal food of the Alca arctica . 
Pam. FALINTJRID2E, Leach . 
Body nearly cylindrical. Outer antennae very thick and 
long; basilar joint very large. Legs all ending in one toe : 
sternal plate very wide. (Plate VI. fig. 2 a represents one 
of the outer foot-jaws.) 
There are many species of this family in different parts of 
the world. They are generally esteemed as food. Siebold 
says that the P. Jo^onicus is much prized in Japan, and 
that the Japanese takeout the meat and viscera, and having 
dried the shell, exhibit it in some of their festivities at the 
New Year, as the symbol of old-age.f 
* Fauna Grrenlandica, p. 243. f Dehaan, Fauna Japonica, p. 159. 
