SCORPION SPIDER-CRAB. 



13 



DEC A POD A. 



BRACHYURA. 



LEPTOPODIADX,. 



SCORPION SPIDER-CRAB. 



Inachus Dorsettensis. Leach. 



Specific character. Rostrum very short, emarginate : the gastric region fur- 

 nished with four small tubercles ranged in a line transversely, and a larger one 

 behind them. 



Cancer Dorsettensis, 

 Scorpio, 



Dorsettensis, 



PENN. Brit. Zool. IV. t. x. f. 1. p. 12. 



FABR. Ent. Syst. II. p. 462. HERBST. I. p. 237. No. 



130. 



LATR. Hist. Nat. Crust. VI. p. 10.9. 

 FABR. Suppl. 358. DESM. Cons. t. xxiv. f. 1. EDW. 



Hist. Crust. I. p. 288. COUCH, Cornish Fauna, 



p. 65. 

 LEACH, Edinb. Encycl. Malac. Brit. t. xxii. f. 1-6. 



I HAVE found it necessary to restore to this species the 

 original specific name given to it by Pennant, who first 

 described it from specimens in the Portland Cabinet, taken 



