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LEPTOPODIADJE. 



DEC A POD A. 



BRACHYURA. 



LEPTOPODIAD&. 



SLENDER SPIDER-CRAB. 



Stenorynclius tenuirostris. 



Specific character. Rostrum longer than the peduncle of the external antennae, 

 its two portions being in contact throughout their whole length ; two minute spines 

 on the epistome, one close to the organ of hearing and another at the base of the 

 external antennae ; arms spinulose at the inner margin. 



Leptopodia tenuirostris, 

 Macropus longirostris ? 

 Macropodia 



tenuirostris, 



Stenorynchus longirostris 1 



LEACH, Edinb. Enc. VII., p. 431. 

 LATH. Hist. Nat. des Crust. VIII., p. 110. 

 Risso. Hist. Nat. de 1'Eur. Merid. V., p. 27. 

 LEACH, Trans. Linn. Soc. XI. p. 331. Malac. 



Brit. t. XXIII. f. 1-5. 

 EDW. Hist. Crust. I. p. 280. COUCH, Cornish 



Fauna, p. 64. 



THIS elegant species may be readily distinguished from 

 the former by the long attenuated rostrum, by the existence 

 of a small spine on the epistome, immediately behind the 



