Zoology.'] NATURAL HISTORY OF VICTORIA. ICrustacea. 



about Portland, from whence examples are often brought to the 

 fish-market. The small female with the much smaller claws seems 

 more common than the great male with its immense powerful 

 pincers. 



Explanation of Figures. 



Plate 179. — Fig. 1, female, about one third natural size. Fig la, abdomen of female, one- 

 third the natural size. Fig. li,antennules, or inner antennae, movable portion without great fixed 

 base, twice the natural size. Fig Ic, antennae, or outer antenna, without the small basal joint, 

 twice the natural size. Fig. Ig, mandible and first and second maxillipedes, natural size. Fig. 

 Id, third or external maxillipede, natural size. Fig. 2, abdomen of male, one-third natural size. 



Plate 180 — Fig. 1, male, about one-third natural size. (^For abdomen, see pi. 179, f. 2). 



Frederick McCoy. 



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