SCORPION SPIDER-CRAB, 



13 



DEC A POD A. 



BRACHYURA. 



LEPTOPODIADM. 



SCORPION SPIDER-CRAB. 



Inachus Dorsettensis. Leach. 



Specijjc character.— Ilostrum very sliort, cmarginate : the gastric region fur- 

 nislied with four small tuhercles ranged in a line transversely, and a larger one 

 behind them. 



Cancer Dorsettensis., 

 „ Scorpio, 



Macropus „ 

 Inachus „ 



Dorsettensis, 



Penn. Brit. Zool. IV. t. x. f. 1. p. 12. 



Fabr. Ent. Syst. II. p. 462. Herbst. I. p. 2^7. No. 



130. 

 Lath. Hist. Nat. Crust. VI. p. 109. 

 Fabr. Suppl. ?>!)8. Desm. Cons. t. xxiv. f. 1. Edw. 



Hist. Crust. I. p. 288. Couch, Cornish Fauna, 



p. 65. 

 Leach, Edinb. Encycl. Malac. Brit. t. xxii. f. 1-6. 



I HAVE found it necessary to restore to this species the 

 original specific name given to it hy Pennant, who first 

 described it from specimens in the Portland Cabinet, taken 



