CBUSTACEA. 
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Axius sTiRYNCHirs. — Leacli, Malao. Brit. t. 33 ; Xilne JSdtoards, 
Rut. des Crust., t. ii, p. 311 ; Bell, Stalh-Eyed Crust., p. 228. 
“ The male of what I (Mr Couch) judge to be the same species, 
differs from the female in the snout (rostrum), which in my 
specimen of the latter was finely notched, and without the well 
marked longitudinal ridge of the former. The outer antennse of 
the male are furnished with a ridge of fine hair on their inward 
line decreasing towards the point, which the female is without ; 
and the former also has well-marked brushes near the lateral edges 
of the abdominal rings. This specimen, like those of the Genus 
CaUianassa, has the habit of biirrowing in the sand, from which 
it rarely emerges ; and then it seeks shelter in a crevice covered 
with weeds, for it is sluggish in its motions, and if distant from 
a Soft bottom in which to sink, incapable of escaping an enemy. 
A female that I obtained loaded with spawn, was dug out of sand 
in the middle of siunmer. 
In the Zoologist for 1856, page 5282, Mr. Couch figured and 
described a specimen that appears to differ from this only in the 
more equal size of the two great chelm, and this might have been 
due to a loss of one of the limbs and its gradual reconstruction. 
Genus, Gebia. — Leach. 
“ Carapace terminating in a rostrum large enough to conceal the 
eyes, the sides forming a ridge passing back and encircling the 
region of the stomach. Outer antennse without a scale. Abdo- 
men (Pleon) long, more enlarged behind ; caudal plates largo. 
The claw legs straightened, the moveable finger large, but not 
met by a corresponding portion in opposition. The following legs 
one fingered, those of the second pair having the next to the last 
articulation large and ciliated.” 
Gebia stellata. — Rontagu ; Leach, Ralao., t. 81 ; Rilne Edwards, 
Hist, des Crust, t. ii,p. 313; Bell, Stalk-Eyed Crust, p. 223. 
The habits of this animal is similar to that of CaUianassa, in 
whose company it has been taken. Dr. Leach says that it has 
teen taken in Plymouth Sound under the mud, in which it makes 
long winding horizontal passages, often a hundred feet or more 
in length. 
Gebia deltuea. — Leach, Ralac., t. 31 ; Rilne Edwa/rds, Rut, des 
Crust, t.n,p. 214; Bell, Stalk-Eyed Crust, p. 228. 
