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GONOPLACID^. 



DECAPOD A. 



BRACHYURA. 



GONOPLACIDjE. 



Cancer angulatus, 

 Ocypoda umjtduta, 

 Gonoplax angulata, 



„ hispinosa, 

 ? Gelasimus Bellii, 

 ? Gonoplax rhomboides. 



ANGULAR CRAB. 



Gonoplax angulata. 



Fabr. Suppl. p. 341. Penn. Brit. VI. Zoul. 



IV. p. 7. t. V. fig. 10. Herbst, t. i. f. 13. 

 Bosc. Hist. Nat. des Crust. I. p. 198. Latr. 



Hist. Nat. des Crust. &c., VI. p. 44. 

 Leach, Ediiib. Encycl. VII. 430. Edwards, 



Hist. Crust. II. p. 61. Couch, Cornish 



Fauna, p. 72. 

 Leach, Make Brit. t. xiii. 

 Couch, Com. Faun. p. 73. 

 Roux, Edwards, &c. 



The carapace is half as LroacI again as it is long, broader 

 across the anterior margin than at the posterior, rounded 

 from before backwards, nearly even from side to side ; the 

 anterior outer angle with a prominent and acute spine, 



