HAIRY CRAB. 
It is observed by Edwards, who first figured 
this curious Crab, that the creature has nothing 
extraordinary in it's general form. The tail, 
however, which he has extended, is usually 
turned under the belly of the living animal. 
This Crab, besides it's greater claws, or 
holders, has four lesser legs on each side. It's 
holders are toothed on both the parts where 
:hey meet when closed; which gives the ap- 
Dearance of teeth in the fore-part of a mouth, 
lud even affords some idea of jaws. 
I The Hairy Crab has obtained it's appella- 
lon, from being wholly covered with a fine 
lairy or mossy substance, of an obscure yel- 
3wish-green colour ; except the tips of the 
5gs, which are all of them white. 
" This Crab," says Edwards, " appears sa 
luch like the mossy coverings of the rocks 
id stones that lay on the sea-shores, that I 
imagine 
