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II. Remar\s by Mr. James Petiver, Apotheca- 
ry, and Fellow of the Royal Society, on 
fome Animals, Plants, &c. fent to him from 
Maryland, by the Reverend Mr. Hugh Jones. 
S E C T L 
Crnjiaceom Animals. 
TEfludo terrefiris Americana, dorfo elato. ^ 
I do not find this certainly defirihed by -any 
Author. Its Shell an Inch and a quarter long, and one 
broad, the Scales about the Edges 2Xt Quadrafigular^ 
thofe above Pentangular ; he is guarded along the Back 
with a round Ridge ; his Head about the Bigneft of our 
Horfe^hean ; the Or lit s of the Eyes very large ; his Snowt 
not very unlike a Parrofs Bill^ his upper Jaw including 
the under ; each Foot has four ftiarp Claws like a Moufe. 
His Belly is made up of (everal thin Scales i whofe 
middle Pair are long and quadrangular, that next the Head 
and Tail triangular^ the reft irregular ; his Tail taper, 
and about halt an Inch long. 
His whole Body exceeds not the half of a large Wal- 
mt. 
The Molucca Crab. 2. 
Mus Regal. Soc. izo. 
In Virginia and feveral parts of the Continent oisynonymsi 
America^ they call it, 
Nnn the 
