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spines of its beak are reported to give venomous wounds. 
(See Desmaret's f Considerations' p. 193.) 
Munida Bameeica, Penn, sp.^ Long-clawecl Lobster . — 
Abdomen with the second and third segments furnished 
with some small spines on their front margin. 
Pound in deep water from Shetland to Cornwall. It was 
first described by Pennant, who received it from the Banff- 
shire coast. Mr. Robert Gray finds it in the Birth of Forth, 
at Dunbar. It is common on the Irish coast. The Rev. 
Alfred Norman finds it in the Firth of Clyde, where how- 
ever it is by no means common. 
Fam. SCYLLJRID. M, Latr. 
Carapace wide. Outer antennse without movable plate. 
Fifth pair of legs similar to the preceding, and not folded 
back above them ; all the legs one-clawed ; outer antennae 
very large and foliaceous ; abdomen very wide and ending 
in a swimming tail, fan-like as usual, but having the plates 
soft and flexible for three-fourths of their length. The first 
abdominal ring without appendages, but each of the four 
following segments has a pair of false feet ; in the male, the 
# Galath ea rugosa, Fabr . ; G. longipeda, Lam . ; Munida llondeletii, Ber. 
