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doges ; the next joint with two minute spines ; the third joint 

 with a single spine. 



Length, three-eighths of an inch. 



Cancer Scorpioides. 

 Tab. VI. Fig. o. 



Body suboval in a side view, much compressed : a carinated 

 ridge along each side runs into the first articulation of the tail: 

 on the hinder part of the body are two joints, to the under part 

 of which some of the legs are fixed ; these are extremely slender, 

 and lie closely folded up: the tail is longer than the body, formed 

 of eight tumid articulations, much resembling that of a scorpion; 

 the extreme joint terminated by two subulate appendages, or 

 caudal fins, each with two joints. 



We have been obliged to give the figure of a mutilated speci- 

 men of this curious insect; the only one that has ever come under 

 our examination. The length is a quarter of an inch. 



The head or fore part was wanting, consequently no eyes nor 

 antennae could be observed ; but the rudiment of arms on the 

 fore part of the body and the legs, which were mostly compact, 

 drawn up closely, seems to entitle it to a place amongst the Can- 

 cri: but we submit it to the opinion of the more able naturalists 

 of the Linnean Society. 



It' the Cancer Esca of Gmelin, p. 299 ; 3, had possessed the same 

 number of joints in the tail, it might have answered the descrip- 

 tion, though the size of that species is not recorded. 



Cancer articulosus. 

 Tab. VI. Fig. 6. 

 With an oblong, smooth, glossy body, a little compressed on 

 the sides, with eleven joints, of a cream colour when dead : an- 

 tenna: 



