PTLUMNUS. 
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pretty trait of cancerine character, and one not unworthy 
of their acute instinct and sagacity in other respects. The 
male displayed no appearance of the moult, its coat being 
of a shelly hardness. I have no doubt that the claw of its 
mate was unintentionally torn off, in its efforts to grasp some 
hold, when resisting my tugs in dragging him out.” 
Gen. 10. PILUMNUS, Leach. 
Carapace convex above, and more or less covered with 
longish hairs. Outer antennse with the first joint small ; 
second joint nearly as long as the first, lodged in the inner 
orbital canthus, and extending beyond the front. Pour hind 
pairs of legs hairy. Abdomen in both sexes of seven joints. 
Pilumnus hirtelltjs, Linn. sp. Hairy Crab . — Latero- 
anterior margins of carapace, with four spines placed on the 
same line ; front divided by a deep fissure down the middle. 
Pore legs unequal in size. The colour of this Crab is 
brownish-red, with dull yellow spots. The legs are banded 
with a dull vellowish colour. 
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Pound on the southern and western coasts of England, 
j and also on the Irish coasts. On the South Devon coast 
I the Rev. Alfred Norman finds it in fifteen fathoms. 
