PORTUNUS PUBER. 
Pape V I. 
P. («. a.) antennis corporis dimidio longioribus, testé pubescente, fronte multidentato. 
Cancer puber. Linn. Syst. Nat. xii. 1046. 
Cancer velutinus. Penn. Brit. Zool.iv.5. Pl. 4. fig. 8. 
Portunus puber. Latr. Hist. Nat. des Crust. et des Insect. vi. 10. 
Gen. Crust. et Insect. i. 27. 3. 
Leach Edinb. Encyel. vii. 390. 
Trans. Linn. Soc. xi. 315. 
Fig. 1. Portunus puber mas. mag. nat. 2. Pedipalpus externus. 
Portunus puber is found in great plenty all along the South-Western coast of Devonshire, 
and is called Velvet Crab by the fishermen. It is used in France as an article of food, and is 
for that purpose taken in very large quantities. When living the colours are very vivid, as 
as represented in the plate. 
