168 CRUSTACEA. 



Atelecyclus, Leach *. 



Fossulse of the intermediate antcnnee longitudinal ; lateral antennae 

 elongated, salient and composed of many joints, but very hairy as 

 well as the elaws; the latter strong, and with compressed hands. 

 The third joint of the foot-jaws sensibly narrowed above, resembling 

 an obtuse or rounded tooth ; conical tarsi, and the ocular pedicles 

 of the ordinary size. The tail is longer than in the preceding Crus- 

 tacea. 



Two species have been described f . One from the coast of 

 England, of a sub-orbicular form, and the other from that of 

 France, Mediterranean, as well as Oceanic. The 



Thia, Leach, 



Approaches Atelecyclus in the lateral antennae, in the direction of 

 llie fossulse, in which the intermediaries are placed, in the form of 

 the third joint of the external foot-jaws, and in the sub-orbicular 

 shell ; but the eyes, together Avith the pedicles, are extremely small 

 and scarcely salient. The tarsi are strongly comi)ressed and sub- 

 elliptical. The front is arcuated, rounded, and without any marked 

 dentations. The pectoral space between the feet is very narrow, 

 and of the same breadth throughout. The claws are much weaker in 

 proportion. The shell is smooth, and in some respects the Thite 

 approach the Lcucosice and the Corystes. 



The type \ of this subgenus, whose habitation was unknown, 

 lias been discovered by Milne Edwards in the sandy shores of 

 the Mediterranean, near Naples. Risso — Journ. de Phys., 1822, 

 p. 251, — described a second, dedicated to M. de Blainville, which 

 he found in the river at Nice. The 



MuRsiA, Leach §. 



Of which but a single species is known, and which is peculiar to 

 that part of the Ocean which bounds the southern extremity of 

 Africa, aj)proaches the Matutee and several Portuni, in the long spine 

 with which each side of the shell is arm.ed posteriorly ; it also 

 approximates to the true Crabs in the form of the shell, and of the 

 external foot-jaws, with this difference, that their third joint forms 

 an elongated square, narrowed and obliquely truncated at its supe- 

 rior extri'mity ; but, as in the Calappae and Hepati, the hands are 

 strongly compressed above, having a sharp and dentated edge, re- 

 s(-mbling a crcst||. 



Hepatus, Latr. 



The Hepati have a considerable affinity with the true Crabs in the 



* W^e had, at first, placed this subgenus, as well as the following one, among the 

 Orbicularia. 



i" See Cousid. G<;n«^r. sur la Classe des Crust., Desmoi-., p. 88, 89. 



X Thia puli/a, Leach, Zool, Miscell. ciii. 



§ This name must be changed to avoid confounding the division with that of 

 Xttisid, another stibgcnus. 



II Desmarcst, Consid. Genir., &c., IX, 3. 



