90 Mr. Montagu's Description of several Marine Animals 



the middle joint two or three small spines, and one on the joint 

 nearest the body : hands sub-chelate, somewhat angulated by 

 rows of tubercles beset with long hairs, armed with a slightly 

 hooked moveable fang, and a hooked spine in place of a fixed 

 one, not half so long as the fang, similar to that of A. Crangon : 

 leo-s ei<dit, very hirsute, furnished each with a single claw : cau- 

 dal fins five, the fixed one sub-bifid, lateral ones with a midrib, 

 and ciliated margin. 



Length nearly two inches. 



Colour yellowish-white, covered with minute stellated orange 

 spots, as it appears under a lens, which give a predominance 



to the last. 



This species, which, I am inclined to believe, is also a nonde- 

 script, was taken with the preceding : it is more rare, but ap- 

 pears, like that crab, to inhabit the subterraneous passages made 

 by the Solenes. 



Cancer Astacus multipes. 

 Tab. V. Tig. 3. 

 Cancer flexuosus. Mull. Zool. Ddn. ii. p. 34. L 66. Prodr. p. 19& 

 «. 2352. 

 Body slender, incurvated, with seven joints : thorax smooth, 

 destitute of proboscis : antennae four, as long as the thorax, the 

 middle pair bifid, the interior branch invariably dusky, the 

 other white ; exterior pair single, longest : anterior plates like 

 those of the prawn, but more ciliated, the fringe pink, (Fig. 3. A.) 

 eyes large, pedunculated: no visible arms: legs fourteen on each 

 side, remarkably slender, and set in a double series: caudal 

 fins five, the middle one bifid ; lateral ones greatly ciliated on 

 the interior margin with pink. (Fig. 3. B.) 

 . At the termination of the thorax between the hinder legs is a 



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