Chapter L

Land crabs, 52;
their extraordinary march towards the sea, 53;
their return after the spawning season, 54;
attack on, 55.

Landing-net and gaff, 14.

Leads for fishing, 20, 21.

_Leucosia urania_, the, 63.

Liver of the crab, 5, 6.

Lobster-fishing, its great importance, 94, 95.

Lobster pigment, soluble in spirits of wine, 26.

Lobster season, 97.

Lobster-shell green, 27.

Lobsters, historical notices of, 90, _et seq._;
their powers of vision, 91;
modes of capturing them, 92;
their prolific nature, _ib._;
plans for artificial fecundation, and apparatus for, 93;
numbers of brought to Billingsgate Market, 94, 95;
large importation of, _ib._;
their popularity extends to all parts of the world, 96;
strange use of them during the Indian war, _ib._;
shifting of their shells, when they become unfit for human food, 97;
their care of offspring, 98;
abundant on the coasts of British North America, _ib._;
captured by pic-nic parties, _ib._;
the spined lobster, 100;
the crayfish variety, 100-102;
swarms of, in the South American Seas, 102;
fishing for, _ib._;
found on the coral reefs of the Mauritius, 105.
(See _Crayfish_.)

Loop slip, use of the, 13.

Lucky stones, anecdote of the, 59.