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HISTORY OR BRITISH CRUSTACEA. 
Gen. 30. PALINUEUS, Fair. 
Carapace spiny , its front margin with two thick, horn-like 
spines projecting over the eyes and the base of the antennae. 
Outer antennae very long and thick, the basal joints very 
large and spiny. Legs all ending in one toe. Middle of 
the front of the carapace with a small more or less project- 
ing, beak-like tooth. 
Palinurus vulgaris. - * Spiny Lobster. (Plate YI. fig. 2.) 
-—The lateral horns of the front smooth above and armed 
below with many sharp little teeth. 
Of a purplish-brown, with dull white spots. 
Common on the southern coasts of England and Ireland, 
whence it is sent to the London market, where it is much 
esteemed as food. Mr. Couch (‘'Cornish Eauna/ p. 77) 
says that its long and unyielding antennse frequently hinder 
it from entering the Crab-pots. He adds that, “keeping 
in companies, it also gets entangled in the trammel net, and 
in some abundance on the fishermen’s lines/’ It is often 
called the Craw r -fish, and sometimes the Eed Crab. 
* Cancer Homarus, L. ; Palinurus quadricornis, Fair . ; Palinurus vul- 
garis, Latr. 
