Class V. CRABS. 



Inhabits the rocky coafts ; the moft delicious 

 meat of any ; cafts its fhell between Chrijlmas and 

 Eafier. 



The tips of the claws of this fpecies are ufed in 

 medicine ; intended to abforb acidities in the fto- 

 mach and bowels. 



Cr. with the thorax quinque-dentated ; body Velutims. 

 covered with fhort brown velvet-like pile \ claws 8 ' Velvet. 

 covered with minute tubercles -, fmall ipines round 

 the top of the fecond joint •, hind legs broadly 

 ovated. This is among the fpecies taken notice of 

 by Arijlotle * on account of the broad het 9 which, 

 he fays, affift them in fwimming : as web-feet do 

 the water-fowl. 



Inhabits the weilern coafts of Anglefea. 



Cr. with the thorax quinque-dentated ; fcrrated ; Corrugate, 

 body wrinkled tranfverfely \ claws furnifhed with 9- Wrink- 

 a fingle fpine on the firfl and fecond joint > fangs 

 ferrated ; lail pair of legs ovated. 



Found on the fhores of She, oppofite to Loch 

 Jurn. 



Cr. with a rectangular body \ the thorax armed Angulatus. 

 near the corner with two fpines \ the claws very lo - AliGXJ * 



* De Pen. dnim* lib. iv, r. 8. 



B 3 long-, 



