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GONOPLACID.E. 



DEC A POD A. 



BRACHYURA. 



GONOPLACWJE, 



Cancer angulatus, 

 Oeypoda anyulata, 

 Gonoplax anr/ulata, 



bispitiosa, 

 ? Gelasimus Bcllii, 

 ? Gonoplaa' rhomboides, 



ANGULAR CRAB. 



Gonoplax angulata. 



FABR. Suppl. p. 341. PENN. Brit. VI. Zool. 



IV. p. 7. t. v. fig. 10. HERBST, t. i. f. 13. 

 Bosc. Hist. Nat. des Crust. I. p. 198. LATR. 



Hist. Nat. des Crust. &c., VI. p. 44. 

 LEACH, Edinb. Encycl. VII. 430. EDWARDS, 



Hist. Crust. II. p. 61. COUCH, Cornish 



Fauna, p. 72. 



LEACH, Malac. Brit. t. xiii. 

 COUCH, Corn. Faun. p. 73. 

 Roux, EDWARDS, &c. 



THE carapace is half as broad again as it is long, broader 

 across the anterior margin than at the posterior, rounded 

 from before backwards, nearly even from side to side ; the 

 anterior outer angle with a prominent and acute spine. 



