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DEA Te CON 
PHALANGIUM CANCROIDES, 
APTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
‘Mouth with horny mandibles, the fecond joint with a very fharp 
moveable cheliform tooth: feelers filiform: no antennz: eyes two 
on the crown and two at the fides: legs eight: abdomen ufually 
rounded. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS, 
Body obovate, and depreffed: claws fmooth, hairy at the ends. 
PHALANGIUM CANCROIDES: abdomine obovato depreffo, chelis 
levibus: digitis pilofis—Lin. Sy/t. Nat. 2. 1028. 4. 
—Fn. Sv. 1968. 
Scorpio CANCROIDES: abdomine ecaudato ovato depreffo fufco, 
manibus oblongis.—Fab. Ent. Sy/t. T. 2. 436. 10. 
Chelifer abdomine lineis tran{verfis.—Geoff. Inf. 2. 618. 1. 
Chelifer europzeus obfcure fufcis corpore ovato depreffo, chelis 
elongatis—Degeer. Inf. 1. 355, 2. tab. 9. fig. 4. 
Reef. Inf. 3. tab. 64. 
Frifch. Inf. 8. tab. 1. 
Scheff. Elem. tab. 38. 
SEE ee 
The fynonyms fufficiently denote the unfettled opinion of eminent 
naturalifts in refpe€t of the proper genus to which our Infeét fhould 
be referred. We haye followed the definition of Linnzus, becaufe 
it 
