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are eaten by the Blackfish, and Sea-basse, being often 

 found entire in their stomachs. 



3. C. granulatus. Thorax granulate, with live lateral 

 teeth^ clypeus with three very obtuse ones. 



Inhabits bays and inlets near the sea. 



Body and feet spotted with brown and covered with 

 minute, crowded granules, those of the thorax more 

 conspicuous, distant and tuberculiform; spots of the ftet 

 and abdomen impressed and placed in more or less obvi- 

 ous lines. Thorax a little uneven, edge all round and 

 teeth granulated; teeth rather large, serrate, hind one a lit- 

 tle smaller, anterior ones forming the canthus of the eye. 

 Orbit subovate, a fissure above, an obtuse tooth beneath 

 the anterior canthus, and a fissure beneath the hind one; 

 Clypeus somewhat advanced, with three obtuse, sub- 

 equal teeth, middle one smaller; Sides of the thorax be- 

 neath, furnished with silky hair; Anterior pair of feet 

 with the second and third joint ciliate before, the latter 

 concave above, not longer than the edge of the thorax^ 

 with a very obtuse tooth at tip and impressed transverse 

 line; Carpus acutely spined within, no spine on the oppo- 

 site edge; Hand convex on the back, an elevated line 

 above on the inner side, fingers striate with impressed 

 lines, about four on the thumb, not falcate at tip. 

 , Length about one inch and a half, greatest breadth at 

 the hind teeth near two inches. 



The specimen described was a female, for which I am 

 indebted to Mr. Titian Peale. In the form of the body, 

 number of the lateral teeth, &:c., it has a great resem- 

 blance to Portunus pictus. I have to regret the loss of 

 this individul before a drawing was made of it. 



Neither of the three species of Cancer which we have 

 here described are sought after as food* 



