It sometimes happens that the flood does not recur every year, and in this case the eu-kod-ko lie dormant until the next, and a year and a half would thus be passed below the surface.

I have often seen them dug out of my garden, or in my wheat field, by the men engaged in digging ditches for irrigation.

The floods usually overflow the river flats in August or September, and recede again in February or March.

For further particulars respecting the modes of catching the eu-kod-kos, vide vol.ii.pages 252 and 267." "I have spoken of this cray-fish as the SMALLER variety as respects the Murray.

It is LARGER than the one found in the ponds of the river Torrens at Adelaide; but in the river Murray one is procured of a size ranging to 4 1/2 lbs., and which is QUITE EQUAL in flavour to the FINEST lobster." These latter have not yet been received in any of our collections, so that we are unable to state how it differs from those now described: they must be the giants of the genus.
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