THE GIANT CRAB OF JAPAN. 



By TUeo. Carrcras. 



This enormous crab is ihe I jr.4frs: kno'/''n. Ordinary examples can span eleven feet between the tips of the front pair of limbs; but large 



specimens measure eighteen feet between the same extremities. It is one of the family of Spider Crabs, and is found only on the coasts of 



Japan. It lives among 'he weed-covered rocks at the bottom of the sea. 



