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perishes there in a short time, and which inhabits univalve 

 terrestrial shells. These last being more rare than the 

 marine shells, the animal does not enjoy the same advantages 

 as the sea-pagmi. It is not always in its power to choose, and 

 its habitation is less convenient. This fact corroborates the 

 reflections made above on the passage quoted from Olivier. 



Mange, who visited some of the Antilles, and who collected 

 there a great number of animals, informed M. Latreille, that he 

 found land paguri escape him, at the moment in which he 

 was about to seize them, by rolling with their shells from the 

 top of the rocks, or of elevated places, to the bottom. This 

 species is probably identical with that of Pere Nicholson. 



According to M. Bosc, there is in the islands of America a 

 very large pagurus, which lives habitually on land, and which 

 only goes to the sea to lay its eggs, and afterwards seeks a new 

 shell, with which it returns into the mountains and the woods, 

 where it habitually resides. When it is taken, it utters a 

 little cry, and endeavours to pinch the hands. The inhabit- 

 ants eat it, and derive from its body a yellowish oil, which 

 they esteem a sovereign remedy in rheumatic cases. The 

 shell of the same animal yields them, through the medium of 

 fire, about half a table spoonful of clear water, which these 

 people consider as an excellent cure for the pustules produced 

 upon the skin by the juice of the mancenilla. 



It is believed that the paguri issue forth pretty generally 

 from their shells when they proceed in search of their pre}'. 

 But may they not secure it without employing such a method, 

 and are not their claws, as well as their other front feet, suffi- 

 cient for this purpose ? It appears more certain that they 

 quit their houses at the period of their amours, otherwise it 

 would be impossible to explain, according to the position of 

 the sexual organs, how these animals could have intercourse. 

 The authors, such as Aristotle, Belon, Ulloa, &c. who have 

 asserted that thev issue from their shells to seek their subsis- 



