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DEC APOD A. 



ANOMOURA. 



PORCELLANADJE. 



PORCELLANADJE, 



HAIRY PORCELAIN CRAB. 

 Porcellana platycheles. 



Specific Character. Front with three flattened triangular teeth, the middle one 

 the longest, and slightly grooved ; hands very large, hairy on the outer edge ; 

 fingers triangular ; wrist with a denticulated lobe at the base. 



Cancer platychdes, 

 Porcellana 



PENNANT, Brit. Zool. (8vo.) IV. t. iv. f. 2, p. 9. HERBST. 



t. ii. f. 6. 



LAM. Anim. sans. Vert. v. p. 230. 

 LEACH, Diet. des. St. Nat. xviii. p. 55. 

 Emv. Hist. Nat. des. Crust, ii. p. 255. 



THE carapace in this species is rather longer than 

 broad, the front trifid, the middle lobe or tooth rather 

 longer than the others, and having a slight median groove ; 

 the surface of the carapace polished, in young specimens 

 covered with short hair, which is longer at the margin, 

 where it is permanent ; a considerable depression behind 

 the genital region of the carapace ; the orbits much arched 

 above. The external antennae much longer than the cara- 



