566 THE FIGHTING CRAB. 
are covered with heavy seaweeds, They are armed with a kind of lance, 
consisting of an iron hook fastened to a long stick, and with this they poke 
about in the crevices under the rocks, and twist out the crabs that have con- 
NIEPZK CRAB.—(Lolydius Ai nsiowi.) 
cealed themselves, These crabs, however, seldom attain any great size, the 
larzer specimens remaining in the deeper water. ‘he boys call them 
“ pungers,” to distinguish them from the green crab. 
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FIGHTING CRAB.—(Gelasimu: bcllator.) 
The shell of this crab is seldom found entirely clean, being generally 
encrusted with acoin-barnacles and various marine creatures, Sometimes, 
when the crab is a very old and large one. has ceased growing for several 
years, and consequently has needed no change of shell, it becomes absolutely 
loaded with all sorts of extraneous growths, and in manv cases js alinost’ 
invisible under its load. There is a very curious specimen in the large 
