BRITISH ZOOLOGY. 



CLASS 



CRUSTACEOUS ANIMALS, 



With eight teet, or ten -, rarely fix, CANCER. 



Two of the feet clawed. CRAB. 



Two eyes, remote ; for the moft part fixed on a 



ftalk, moveable. 

 Tail foliated, and fhort, lodged in a groove in the 



body. 



C, Lin. $j/J?. iO$g. Pifum. 



i. Pea* 



W 



C».^ "\ y ITH rounded and frriooth thorax, 

 entire and blunt. With a tail of 

 the fize of the body, which com- 

 monly is of the bulk of a pea. 



Inhabits the mufTel, and unjuftly has acquired 

 the repute of being poifonous. The fwelling after 

 eating of mufifels is wholly constitutional •, for one 

 that is affected by it, hundreds remain uninjured. 



Vol. IV. B Crabs, 



