PORTUMNUS VARIEGATUS. 
Tas. IV. 
P. testa obscure subgranulata, utrinque 5-dentata dentibus 2 et 3 subobsoletioribus; fronte 
3-dentata; carpis interne unidentatis. 
Cancer Jatipes variegatus. Planch. de Conch. min. notis. p. 34. tab. TIL. fig. 7. B. C. mas. 
Cancer latipes. Penn. Brit. Zool. IV. p. 3. tab. 1. fig. 4. mas. 
Herbst 1. p. 267. tab. XX1. fig. 126. 
Cancer Lysianassa. Herbst tab. LIV. jig. 6? 
Portumnus variegatus. Leach Edin. Encycl. 7. 391. 
Habitat littora maris passim sub arena latitans. 
Fig. 1, mas. 2, maris abdomen. 3, pedipalpus geminus externus auctus. 4, antenna 
externa auct. 5, femina. 6, femine abdomen. 
Portumnus variegatus is one of the most beautiful as it is the most common species of the 
Malacostracous animals that inhabit our coasts; it is taken by digging beneath the sand at low 
water mark, and is found thrown on all the sandy shores of Great Britain in great abundance, 
especially during storms. 
The very fine specimens represented in the annexed plate were given to me by my indefati- 
gable friend, C. Prideaux, Esq. along with a vast number of rare and curious Crustacea, taken 
by himself on the southern coast of Devonshire. 
