Abstract
Recently a good dried specimen of American Lobster, Homarus americanus is placed on show in a corner of the first floor of the Matsue Branch of the Central Bank for Agriculture and Forestry. This lobster was caught 250 sea miles off the coast of New York City by a crew of the Okuni-maru, a pelagic fishing vessel of Japan in January, 1974. The specimen is generally yellow-reddish brown coloured over the entire body, and measured 48cm from the tip of rostrum to the posterior margin of telson. The carapace is 27cm long including rostrum, and 21.5cm excluding rostrum, with the width of 15cm. The two spines furnished on the under-surface of the rostrum, the characteristic of the species, are of anomalous shape as follows: knitted together at the bases and expanded like a roundish plate as shown in the Text-fig. 2, B.
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