The animal life of our seashore With special reference to the New Jersey coast and the southern shore of Long Island . pper, has proved effi-cacious as a preventive of destruction. In all these forms the body is largely symmetricalin outline, and the numerous pairs of legs are ofnearly equal size and equally disposed along thesides of the body; hence the term Isopoda, equal-footed, that has been applied to the group in general. SQUILL. Our description of the Crustacea of the coastwould not be complete without reference beingmade to a somewhat rare species, the squill, whichis figured on the fo
The animal life of our seashore With special reference to the New Jersey coast and the southern shore of Long Island . pper, has proved effi-cacious as a preventive of destruction. In all these forms the body is largely symmetricalin outline, and the numerous pairs of legs are ofnearly equal size and equally disposed along thesides of the body; hence the term Isopoda, equal-footed, that has been applied to the group in general. SQUILL. Our description of the Crustacea of the coastwould not be complete without reference beingmade to a somewhat rare species, the squill, whichis figured on the following page. The animal canbe immediately recognized by its greatly elongatedand flattened body, measuring from four to six,or exceptionally ten, inches in length, the greatKg 9 98 OUR CARCINOLOGIGAL FRIENDS. delicacy of all its ambulatory appendages, exceptthe first pair, and the greatly developed swim-merets of the posterior part of the body. Theexterior (?) pair of feelers (antennse) have also apeculiar structure, being spread out into an ovalciliated plate. The animal, which is a close relative of a com- -^^. Squilla empusa. mon European species, is in many regions highlyesteemed as an article of food. It is a true bur-rower, but as yet little positive is known of itsgeneral habits. OUR CARCINOLOOICAL FRIENDS. 99 THE HORSESHOE CRAB: IS IT A GIANT SPIDER-FORM? Those among us to whom the horseshoe crab, orking-crab as it is frequently called, in allusion toits large size, is knownonly in its general de-tails, would probablyscarcely think it worthwhile to consider thequestion as to its posi-tion in the animalworld. What shouldit be other than the* crab that it has al-ways been considered ?With our carcinologi-cal friends it agreesin the possession of acrusty envelope orshield, it breathes bymeans of gills, inhabitsthe water or mud likethem, and has, more-over, the end-joints ofthe legs pincered (che-late). Further, it peri-odically sheds its shield like the crabs. But relent-
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