90 



I'ORTUNID^, 



DEC A POD A. 



BRACHYURA. 



PORTUNIDM. 



VELVET SWIMMING-CRAB. 



Portunus puber. 



Specific character. — Hinder feet with a longitudinal elevated line ; body pubes- 

 cent ; front with numerous small spiny teeth. 



Cancer pitber, Linn. Syst. Nat. XII. 1046. 



„ vclutinus, Penn. Brit. Zool. IV. p. 5. t. iv. f. 8. 



Portuuus puber. Leach, Malac. Podophth. Brit. t. vi. 



p. 441. 



Edw. Crust. I. 



The carapace of this species is broader than it is long- 

 in the proportions of four to three. The anterior margin 

 forms the segment of a circle, and each latero-anterior 

 portion is furnished with five strong triangular teeth, the 

 margins of all of which, excepting the last, are minutely 

 serrated, and the points are directed somewhat forwards ; 

 the posterior is the narrowest, and finely acuminated. 

 The orbits are veiy large and open, both margins minutely 



