of the Fisliery Board for Scotland. 137 



Fig. 101 shows the stage immediately following, viz., 8-5 mm. The 

 lateral teeth of the carapace are now lobes having minutely notched 

 edges ; the secondary lobes are almost as large as the primary. The 

 margin of the orbit and rostrum is minutely notched. The tubercles on 

 the chela are rounded. 



In the succeeding stage, 10 "75 mm. (fig. 98), a condition closely ap- 

 proaching the adult is to be noted. The notched edge of the lateral lobes 

 of the orbit and rostrum is still more prominent than in the adult. The 

 tuberculated chela is very noticeable. A distinction in size between the 

 primary and secondary lobes is still to be seen. The edge of the carapace 

 shows a triple row of tubercles. The dorsum also is tuberculated. 



The sixth cast, 14 '5 mm. (fig. 76), is represented in figs. 99 and 97, 

 the former showing the frontal region. The lobes of the edge of the cara- 

 pace are on the whole very similar to the adult condition. The chela is 

 still tuberculated, and the triple row of tubercles which has succeeded 

 the notches is very prominent. 



In the cast shell shown in fig. 77 (19"5 mm. across) the tubercles are 

 prominent but smaller. 



They are further reduced in the next stage, viz., 24*5 mm. (fig. 78), 

 and in that immediately following, viz., 30 mm. (fig. 79), the tubercles 

 are practically reduced to the condition in the adult. 



Fig. 81, the last of the series, was not made from the actual specimen, 

 but is a drawing of a crab of the 8ame size. 



LITERATURE. 



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Taf. viii.-ix., 1875. 

 Beocchi. — " Recherclies sur les organes genitaux males des Crustaces decapodes." 



Annales des Sciences naturelles, Zoologie et Paleontolofjie, t. ii., 1875. 

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Biologie, t. xiii., 1895. 

 CuXNiNGHAM. — " On the Early Post larval Stages of the Common Crab (Cancer 



pagurus), and on the Affinity of that Species with Atelecyclus heterodon." 



Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, March 15, 1898. 

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Mhiioires del' Academic des Sciences deVInstitut de France, t. xxiii., Paris, 



1853, p. 105, pi. i.-ix. 

 Grobben. — " Beitrage zur Kenntniss der miinnlichen Geschlechts-organe der 



Dekapoden." Arbeit a. d. Zool. Instit. d. Universitdt, Wien, 1 Bd.,pp. 1-94, 



Taf. i.-vi., 1878. 

 Heath. — "The Breeding Hal)its of Cancer magister." American Naturalist, 



xxxvi., pp. 501, 502. 1902. 

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Bxdletin, U.S. Fish Commission, for 1895. 

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abdominales dans les ecrevisses." Annales des Sciences natwelles, sev. Ae 



(Zoologie), t. xiv., 1860, p. 359. 



" De la maniere dont les (Eufs des Ecrevisses s'attachent aux fausses 



pattes abdominales." — L'Institut, t. xxi., No. 998, p. 64. 1853. 



M'Intosh. — "On the Hairs of Carcinus moenas." Trans. Linnean Society, vol. 

 xxiv. 



Mayer, P. — "Sur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Dekapoden." — Jeoa. Zeit 

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