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PORCELLANADiE. 



DEC APOD A. 

 ANOMOURA. 



PORCELLANAD.^. 



HAIRY PORCELAIN CRAB. 



Porcellana platycheUs. 



Specific Character. — Front with three flattened triangular teeth, the middle one 

 the longest, and slightly grooved ; hands very large, hairy on the outer edge ; 

 fingers triangular ; wrist with a denticulated lobe at the base. 



Cancer platyclielcs. Pennant, Brit. Zool. (8vo.) IV. t. iv. f. 2, p. 9. Herbst. 



t. ii. f. 6. 

 Porcellana „ Lam. Anim. sans. Vert. v. p. 230. 



Leach, Diet. des. So. Nat. xviii. p. 55. 



Edw. Hist. Nat. des. Crust, ii. p. 255. 



The carapace in this species is rather longer than 

 broad, the front trifid, the middle lobe or tooth rather 

 longer than the others, and having a slight median groove ; 

 the surface of the carapace polished, in young specimens 

 covered with short hair, which is longer at the margin, 

 where it is permanent ; a considerable depression behind 

 the genital region of the carapace ; the orbits much arched 

 above. The external anteima) much longer than the cara- 



