LEPTOPODIAD^. 



DEC APOD A. 



BRACHYURA. 



LEPTOPODIAD^. 



SLENDER SPIDER-CRAB. 



Stenorynchus tenuirostris. 



Specific character. — Rostram longer than the peduncle of the external antennae, 

 its two portions being in contact throughout their whole length ; two minute spines 

 on the epistome, one close to the organ of hearing and another at the base of the 

 external antenna? ; arms spinulose at the inner margin. 



Leptopodia ten uirostris, 

 Macropus longirostris ? 

 Macropodia „ 



„ tenuirostris, 



Stenorynchus longirostris ? 



Leach, Edinb. Enc. VII., p. 431. 

 Latr. Hist. Nat. des Crust. VIII., p. 110. 

 Risso. Hist. Nat. de TEur. Merid. V., p. 27. 

 Leach, Trans. Linn. Soc. XI. p. 331. Malac. 



Brit. t. XXIII. f. 1-5. 

 Edw. Hist. Crust. I. p. 280. Couch, Cornish 



Fauna, p. 64. 



This elegant species may be readily distinguished from 

 the former by the long attonnated rostrum, by the existence 

 of a small spine on the epistome, immediately behind the 



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