NEPHROPS. 
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Gen. 37. NEPHBOPS, Leach. 
Beak slender, and furnished with several teeth on each 
side. Eyes large and kidney-shaped. Lamellar appendage 
of outer antennae is wide and long. Fore legs long and 
prismatic ; hand of the two following pairs compressed. 
Last ring of carapace slightly capable of motion. 
Nephrops Norvegicus, Linn. sp. Norway Lobster . 
(Plate YXIL fig. 1 .) — Carapace pubescent, armed with points 
on the stomachal region, and with three granular lines on 
the posterior half. Hands furnished with four serrated 
crests. Abdomen with transverse and oblique grooves 
filled with a close-set pubescence. 
Common on the Scottish and some parts of the Irish 
coasts. Dr. Howden says that in the Firth of Forth it is 
common in deep water. It is much esteemed as food. 
The Bev. Alfred Norman takes it in the Firth of Clyde. 
Tribe CABIDITA. 
The Crustacea of the next four families belong to a 
division named Salicoques by the French. Their body is 
generally laterally compressed ; the abdomen very large, 
