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legs of the male thick, not reaching beyond the penultimate 
joint of the second pair of legs. 
This species seems to be pretty generally distributed on 
the coasts of England and Ireland. Mr. Eyton finds it off 
the Isle of Man, and the Eev. A. Norman describes it as 
not uncommon among the Channel Islands. Mr. Thomp- 
son, who finds it at Weymouth, describes the ova as large 
and of an orange-brown colour ; the colour of the animal is 
dingy purple, brighter on the fore part of the carapace. 
Inachus leptochirus, Leach. Slender-armed Spider 
Crab . — Stomachal region with three spines placed triangu- 
larly. Eore legs of the male slender and reaching beyond 
the penultimate joint of second pair of legs. Sternum of 
the male furnished with a small oval polished tubercle. 
Eirst found by Mr. Cranch on the coast of Devon or 
Cornwall; it is found in Ireland. The Eev. G. Gordon 
Zoologist/ 3681) says that five specimens were taken 
from the stomach of a cod in the Moray Eirth in 1849, and 
some were subsequently found in the Eorth. The Eev. 
Alfred Norman found it not uncommon in forty fathoms, 
seven miles off Ealmouth ; he has taken also a fine specimen 
of the female in the Eirth of Clyde. 
