ITS CRUSTACEANS. 



Plate XL. 



Fig. 1. The same, after a sixth exuviation on October 3. Back. 



2. The same, after a seventh exuviation on 10th April, after October 3. 



Back. 



3. Breast. 



Plate XLI. 



Fig. I. Cancer pagiirus, small specimen, mutilated of seven limbs on Octo- 

 ber 20. Back. 



2. The same. Breast. 



3. The same, after exuviation in 102 days, all the defective limbs 



having come in entire. 



4. Cancer pagurus, which perished after mutilation. 



•5. 6, 7, 8. Cancer pagiirus, young. The last full of spawn. 



A specimen somewhat older is represented Plate XXXIX. fig. 9. 

 9. Cancer pagurus, roe. 



Plate LXX. Supplemental. — Miscellaneous Crustaceans. 

 Fig. I. Cancer pagurus, monstrous claw. 



§ 3. Cancer (portunus) lividus — The Flying Crab. — Plate XLII.^ 



LXX. 



The two preceding subjects afford a mass of valuable illustrations 

 in the history of this section of the Crustacean race. I have united 

 them in the same paragraph, wherein I mean to include also the present 

 and the following articles, because none of the whole are distinguished 

 by such important peculiarities, as to render a separate place for each 

 essential. On the contrary, as we shall see, they are united by the 

 strongest ties, as exhibited in vai'ious definite features. 



All that comes from the hand of the Creator is orderly, and con- 

 sistent with the harmonies of nature. The Supreme Intelligence has as- 

 signed to everything its own proper place and position in the frame of the 

 universe, whether' it precedes, whether it follows that which is of its 



