Part 8

Silk-worm gut, 15.

Silk-yielding mussel, 39.

Skeleton of the crab, 5.

Slugs, value of in the Chinese market, 71.

Slug-hunters, 70.

Smelts, capture of, 19.

Soldier crabs, 33.

South Seas, coral-formed islands of the, 51.

Southern Seas, inhabited by legions of crabs, 68, 69.

Spawning season of the land-crabs, 54.

Spider crabs, 32, 33.

Squat lobsters, 99.

Swimming crabs, 29.

T.

Table, selection of a thoroughly good crab for the, 24, 25.

_Thelphusa fluviatilis_, a genus of crab, 55; religions anciently connected with the, 57.

Traps for catching crabs, 10.

Traveller blocks, use of the, 21.

Trepang of the Southern Seas, 69; process of boiling, 70.

Troughs for hatching crustacea, 93.

Trout-hooks, 18, 19.

V.

Velvet swimming crab, the, 30.

Venus’s flower-basket, of the Philippine Islands, 35, 36; its curious texture, 36.

W.

Walpole’s account of fishing for crayfish, 102.

Whelk-shells, 34.

Whiting, capture of, 18.

Y.

Yoke-lines used in shrimping, 75.

R. CLAY, SON, AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS, DREAD STREET HILL.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

Obvious typos and missing characters corrected. However, the following have been left unchanged from the original: author’s spelling of “hybernation”, “Macrocheira-kœmpferi”; extra closing bracket on page 57.

The text on page 74, which describes the illustration “The Dredge”, has incorrectly referred to part A on the illustration with a lowercase “a”.

Inconsistencies in hyphenation retained.

Missing punctuation in index corrected.

The positions of some illustrations were moved to enhance readability. Page numbers from the original list of illustrations have been retained.