CRUSTACEA EUCARIDA DECAPODA 



tropical, and extending into the warmer temperate seas, Matuta 

 (Fig. 129) from the Indo-Pacific. 



Fam. 2. Leucosiidae. — Similar to the above, but the afferent 



openings to the gill-chambers lie 

 at the bases of the thinl maxilli- 

 pedes. Male openings on the 

 sternum. This family contains 

 a great number of forms, with 

 head - quarters in tlie tropical 

 littoral, but extending into the 

 temperate seas. Ilia in the 

 European seas. /. nucleus (Fig. 

 130) common in the Mediter- 

 ranean. Ehalia in the Atlantic, 

 North Sea, and Indo - Pacific. 

 Lcucoda in Indo-Pacifie. 



Fam. 3. Dorippidae. — Cepha- 

 lothorax short and square. The 

 abdomen is not hidden under the 

 thorax ; tlie antennae are large, and the last two pairs of legs are 

 held dorsally, and have terminal hooked claws. Dori^ype, littoral 

 in Mediterranean and Indo-Pacific. Cymonomus (Fig. 127) from 

 deep-sea of Atlantic and Mediterranean. 



Fam. 4. Raninidae. — Similar to Dorippidae, but the cephalo- 

 thorax is elongated, -and the legs usually have the last two 

 joints very broad. Several genera, chiefly in the deeper littoral 

 zone. Banina dentata in the Indo-Pacific. 



Fjg. 130. — Dorsal view of Ilia nudeus 

 X 1. (From an original drawing pre 

 ]iared for Professor Weldon.) 



Tribe 3. Cyclometopa. 



In these Crabs the carapace is circular rather than square ; 

 its frontal and lateral margins are produced into spines and there 

 is no pointed rostrum. The mouth is square, and the third 

 maxillipedes are greatly flattened and form a lid-like expansion 

 over the other oral appendages. This group includes the 

 common Shore-crab of our coasts {Carcinus macnas), the swim- 

 ming Crabs with expanded pereiop'ods {Portunus, Lwpa, etc.), tlie 

 Edible Crab {Cancer pagurui), and many others. 



Corystes cassivelaumcs is a Crab of doubtful affinities. It is 

 sometimes placed among the Oxyrhyncha, but, as Gurney ^ has 



^ Loc. cit. |). 181. 



