THE CRUSTACEA 



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in line, gradually diminishing in size, as in the true "crabs," 

 but that they run down one side and up the other, following 

 the curve seen in the abdomen of the hermit crab, and that 

 the telson or last segment is touching the first, a true 

 hermit crab tail, only here tucked in under and touch- 



Fig. 61. Great Stone Crab. Lithodes maia. | Natural size 



ing the sides, now joined with a thin membrane. 

 peculiarities are best seen in the female. ;'] $*] 



Last of the Anomoura, and, I think, a doubtful member 

 of the order, is Dromia vulgar is (" The Sleeping Crab " 

 Fig. 62). This is a very peculiar crab. The body is of a 

 roughly oval form, very convex, and knobbed or "knolled", 

 with large bosses. It is thickly clothed with close-set short 

 hairs, wears a regular velvet coat, only the tips of the claws, 

 which are porcelainlike and of a pink colour, projecting, 



