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HISTORY OP BRITISH CRUSTACEA. 
the peduncle of the inner antennae is much shorter ; the 
lateral spines of the carapace are scarcely marked, and there 
is no sternal spine between the base of the second pair of 
legs. Nearly an inch long. 
Salcombe Bay, Devonshire (Alder) . First ascertained to 
be British, and described in Professor Bell's w r ork. (p. 259). 
Mr. W. Thompson got two at Weymouth, in June 1853; 
one of these was in spawn : the eggs were of a rich brown. 
The Rev. Alfred Norman obtained it at Falmouth. 
Crangon spinosus, Leach. Spiny Shrimp , — Second pair 
of legs much shorter than the third pair. Carapace armed 
with five rows of teeth ; abdomen nearly smooth ; the third 
and fourth segments slightly keeled; the fifth, sixth, and 
seventh channelled. 
Plymouth Sound (Prideaux) ; Falmouth (Cranch) ; Wey- 
mouth (W. Thompson, who observes that its eggs are of a 
dirty- white, tinged with green) ; Moray Firth (Gordon) ; 
Shetland (Mr. Bailee dredged it off the Baaf in 1851) ; 
off Oban (Rev. Alfred Norman). 
Mr. Gosse^ describes a specimen when alive as being 
drab or pale wood-brown, with a defined band of opaque 
white across the fourth segment, a much broader one across 
# Amu and Mag. 1853* p, 384, 
