14 HISTORY OF BRITISH CRUSTACEA. 



species, "notwithstanding their timid and lazy character, 

 seize the object of their anger by a sudden and unexpected 

 snap, and nip with great force, holding on with extraordinary 

 firmness and tenacity, although unable, from the bluntness 

 of their pincers, to inflict a wound."* He was reminded of 

 the mode employed by the slow-paced Lemur {Otolicnus tar- 

 dig radus) when seizing a bird. 



Family I. MACROPOBIADJE^ M. Edw. 

 Legs slender and extremely long; the second or third 

 pair always longer than the fore legs, and more than twice 

 the length of the postfrontal portion of the carapace. Pro- 

 fessor Milne-Edwards believes that the Crabs of this family 

 live chiefly on marine worms, planarise, and small mollusca. 



Gen. I. STENOHHYNCHUS,t Lam. 



Carapace triangular, and produced in front into a beak- 

 like projection, which is bifid. Orbits circular ; eyes not re- 

 tractile. Outer antennse with the first joint very narrow ; 

 the second inserted on the sides of the beak, and the third 

 much longer than the second. The mouth apparatus much 



* Brit. Crust, p. 25. f Ma/cpos, long ; ttovs, irodos, a foot. 



X 2t6ws, slender, and pvyxos, a beak. 



