PIRIMELA DENTICULATA. 
Tas. III. 
P. testa levi tuberculata, lateribus utrinque 5-dentatis, orbita posticé 2-dentata ; dente ante- 
riore majore, fronte 3-dentato ; dente medio longiore. 
Cancer denticulatus. Montagu Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 87. Tab. 2. fig. 2. 
Leach Edinb. Encycl. vii. 391. 
Fig. 1, Mas. 2, Maris abdomen. 3, Femina. 4, Femine abdomen. 5, Pedipalpus. 
6, Antenna externa. 7, Antenna interna. 
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Montagu first described this beautiful little crab from a specimen sent him from the Sandwich 
coast, by Mr. Boys. 
Donoyan has in his Museum a specimen from the Scottish shores, from whence I also have 
received a fragment. Dead examples were found at Bantham on the South coast of Devon, bv 
C. Prideaux, Esq. who, with his usual liberality, supplied my cabinet with a fine series, exhi- 
biting considerable variation in colour ; but the finest individual that I have seen, and which is 
figured in the adjoining plate, was found amongst the rubbish of some Trawl-fishers, at Tor- 
quay, by that accurate observer of nature, Dr. Goodall Provost of Eton, who gave it to me 
with a number of other marine productions, that now enrich my cabinet, 
