Class V. LOBSTERS. 21 



Cancer. Lin. Syjl. 1056. Atomos, 



Mirum animalculum in corallinis, 13 c. Bafter. i. 43. tab. iv. 32. Atom. 



L. with a flender body ; filiform antenna ; three 

 pair of legs near the head ♦, behind which are two 

 pair of oval veficula\ beyond, are three pair of legs, 

 and a flender tail between the laft pair. 



Very minute. The help of the microfcope 

 often neceffary for its infpection, 



C. Lin. Syjl. IO55. No, 8 1. Pulex. 



33. Flea. 



L. with five pair of legs, and two pair of claws 

 imperfect -, with twelve joints in the body. 



Very common in fountains and rivulets ; fwims 

 fwiftly in an incurvated pofture on its back •, em- 

 braces and protects its young between the legs; 

 does not leap. 



L. Liit. Syjl. 1055. No. 82. Locufta. 



Ro/el Infett. Hi. tab. 62. 3 + . Locust, 



L. with four antenna -, two pair of imperfect claws •, 

 the firft joint ovated ; body confifts of fourteen 

 joints, in which it differs from the former. 



Abounds in fummer-time on the fhores, beneath 

 {tones and alga > leaps about with vafl agility. 



C 3 Cancer. 



