Note 2 — BLUE AND RED: OR, THE DISCONTENTED LOBSTER.
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Palurinus vulgaris, the spiny lobster, has no true claws, but huge hairy antennæ. These lobsters are red during their lifetime! I have seen them (in the Crystal Palace Aquarium) seated exactly as here described, with blue lobsters watching them from niches of the rocky sides of the tank, where they looked like blue-jerseyed smugglers at the mouths of caves.