GREAT CRAB. 



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DECAPOD A. 



BKACHYURA. 



CANCERID^E. 



GREAT CRAB. 



Cancer Pagurus. Auct. 



Specific cliarader. Shell granulated; latero-anterior margin ten-lobed, the lobes 

 contiguous, quadrate, entire ; hands smooth. 



Cancer Pagurus, 



Platycardnus Par/urns, 

 Jun. Cancer ineiso-erenatus, 



LINN. Syst. Nat. XII. i. 1044. HERBST, Krab. 



t. ix. f. 59. PENN. Brit. Zool. IV. t. iii. f. 7. 



LEACH, Malac. Brit. t. x. BELL, Trans. Zool. 



Soc. I. p. 341. 



EDWARDS, Hist. Crust, i. p. 413 

 COUCH, Cornish Fauna, p. 70. 



THE carapace is transversely oblong, flattened, slightly 

 elevated in the middle, somewhat rounded before and be- 

 hind ; the surface minutely granulated, smooth, with the 

 regions but slightly marked. The latero-anterior margin 

 is slightly recurved, divided into ten quadrate lobes, the 

 sides of which are contiguous, and the margins entire ; 



