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A HISTORY OF SUSSEX the name of this valued contributor might have been appended as guaran- teeing almost all the records of decapod species. On the other hand, it would be improper to conceal the doubt which he has expressed to me by letter as to the occurrence at Hastings of Goneplax angulata, Galathea nexa and Eupagurus prideaux, ' in view of the fact that the Hastings boats go far afield to the French coast and Channel Islands for their fishing,' Great weight must be attached to the opinion of so experienced an observer, but as all these species are known from our south-west coast, it is not absolutely improbable that they should be found also within a reasonable distance of the Sussex shore. Though the species here reviewed have been on the whole rather numerous, they form but a small fraction of all the English Crustacea, and almost certainly they will eventually prove to form only a small fraction of the Crustacea of this county, but that will not be until the more minute forms, and especially the marine and freshwater entomostra- cans, have been made the subject of the same assiduous pursuit as that of late so advantageously bestowed upon the higher groups. 266