BOPYRUS. 
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Montagu, they were always attended by the male, who 
attaches himself firmly by his claws to the appendages. He 
adds that the very disproportionate size of the sexes is wisely 
adapted to an animal whose habitation is so confined. 
Pam. BOPYRIDjE. 
Abdominal appendages lamellar and concealed beneath 
the abdomen. 
Gen. 134. BOPYRUS, Latr. 
Male much smaller than the female, narrow and elon- 
gated ; head with rudimentary antennae; legs very short ; the 
abdominal segments with false legs, like small membranous 
lobes, scarcely perceptible. Female five or six times larger 
than the male; body pyriform and very depressed, and 
always more or less bulging on one side ; her abdomen is 
very wide at the base, and gradually contracts to a point, 
its lower surface has five pairs of false legs, each consisting 
of a single membranous triangular plate. 
Pound beneath the carapace of Prawns of the genera 
Palcemon and Hippolyte , their presence being indicated by 
an external swelling of that part. The French fishermen 
