some crawfish, or spiny-lobster, closely related to the British species, but Wifferently coloured. This creature is a marvel of variegated mauve, blue, cream and green, and it is a fre-quanter of rocky parts from Ché- kiang southward It may range further north, but I have not come across specimens definitely stated to have been taken further north than Foochow. It is readily distinguished from the lobster by the absence of the large claws, their place being taken by small subchelate appendages like walking legs. Subchelate, it may be explained, means that, instead of the claw ending in two lobes which grasp like pincers, there is only one lobe, which bends down upon the penultimate segment of the appendage in the same manner that the blade of a penknife shuts down upon the handle.
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