CLASS V. 

 CRUSTACEOUS ANIMALS, 



GENUS I. CANCER. CRAB. 



Feet eight or ten, rarely six, two of them 



clawed. 

 Eyes two, remote, for the most part fixed on a 



stalk, moveable. 

 Tail foliated, and short, lodged in a groove in 



the body. 



C. Lin. Syst. I03g. G?}!. Lin. Herlst. Cane. g5. t. 2. /. j. PisuM. 

 2964. 21. Pea. 



i_/'R. With rounded and smooth thorax, en- 

 tire and blunt. With a tail of the size of the 

 body, which commonly is of the bulk of a pea. 

 Inhabits the mussel, and unjustly has ac- 

 quired the repute of being poisonous. The 

 swelling after eating of mussels is wholly con- 

 stitutional ; for one that is affected by it, hun- 

 dreds remain uninjured. Tab. i. Jig. 1. 



B 2 



