GREAT CRAB. 



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DEC A POD A. 



BRACHYURA. 



CANCERfDJE. 



GREAT CRAB. 



Cancer Pagurus. Auct. 



Specific character. — Shell granulated ; latero-aiiterior margin ten-lobed, the k)bes 

 contiguous, quadrate, entire ; hands smooth. 



Cancer Pagurus, 



Platycardnus Pagurus, 

 Jun. Cancer inciso-crenalus. 



Linn. Syst. Nat. XII. i. 1044. Herbst, Krah. 



t. ix. f. 59. Penn, Brit. Zool. IV. t. iii. f. 7. 



Leach, Malac. Brit. t. x. Bell, Trans. Zoo). 



Soc. I. p. 341. 

 Edwards, Hist. Crust, i. p. 413 

 Couch, Cornisli Fauna, p. 70. 



The carapace is transversely oblong, flattened, slightly 

 elevated in the middle, somewhat rounded before and be- 

 hind ; the surface minutely granulated, smooth, with the 

 regions but slightly marked. The latero-anterior margin 

 is slightly recurved, divided into ten quadrate lobes, the 

 sides of which are contiguous, and the margins entire ; 



