PIRIMELA DENTICULATA, 
Tab. III. 
P. testa I® vi tuber culata, later ibus utrinque 5-dentatis, orbita postice 2-dentata; dente ante- 
riore majore, fronte 3-dentato ; dente medio longiore. 
Cancer denticulatus. Montagu Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 87. Tab. 2. Jig. 2. 
Leach Edinb. Encycl. vii. 391. 
Fig-. 1, Mas. 2. Maris abdomen. 3, Femina. 4, Feininae abdomen. 5 , Pedipalpus. 
6, Antenna externa. 7, Antenna interna. 
Montagu first described this beautiful little crab from a specimen sent him from the Sandwich 
coast, by Mr. Boys. 
Donovan has in his Museum a specimen from the Scottish shores, from whence I also have 
received a fragment. Dead examples were found at Bantham on the South coast of Devon, bv 
C. Prideaux, Esq. who, with his usual liberality, supplied my cabinet with a fine series, exhi- 
biting considerable variation in colour ; but the finest individual that I have seen, and which is 
figured in the adjoining plate, was found amongst the rubbish of some Trawl-fishers, at Tor- 
<l ua y; by that accurate observer of nature. Dr. Goodall Provost of Eton, who gave it to me 
with a number of other marine productions, that now enrich my cabinet. 
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