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HISTORY OF BRITISH CRUSTACEA. 
species, “notwithstanding their timid and lazy character, 
seize the object of their anger by a sudden and unexpected 
snap, and nip with great force, holding on with extraordinary 
firmness and tenacity, although unable, from the bluntness 
of their pincers, to inflict a wound.”* Be was reminded of 
the mode employed by the slow-paced Lemur ( Otolicnus tar - 
digradus) when seizing a bird. 
Family I. MACROPODIADAE ,f M. Edw. 
Legs slender and extremely long; the second or third 
pair always longer than the fore legs, and more than twice 
the length of the postfrontal portion of the carapace. Pro- 
fessor Milne-Edwards believes that the Crabs of this family 
live chiefly on marine worms, planarise, and small mollusca. 
Gen. I. STEN OEBTN CHU S, f Lam. 
Carapace triangular, and produced in front into a beak- 
like projection, which is bifid. Orbits circular ; eyes not re- 
tractile. Outer antennae with the first joint very narrow ; 
the second inserted on the sides of the beak, and the third 
much longer than the second. The mouth apparatus much 
* Brit. Crust, p. 25. f M aicpos, long ; n rovs, 7ro8os, a foot. 
X 2t€j/os> slender, and pvyxos , a beak. 
