THE 
CRESTED CRAB. 
Generic Character . 
Legs generally eight, (in some species six or 
ten, besides two claspers or chelated arms. 
Eyes two, commonly distant; footstalked, move- 
able. 
Tail articulated. 
Specific Character, &c. 
Short-tailed tuberculated CRAB with numerous 
ramified and fasciculated spines, and bifid 
crested snout. 
This highly singular species, says Seba, is the 
cancer horridus of Rumphius, and is covered not 
only on the upper part of the bod}% which is very 
convex and marked into various elevations and de¬ 
pressions, but also on every other part with groupes 
of sharp spines and hair-like prickles: the head is 
elevated, acuminated, and every where beset with 
spiny processes : the long and thick arms are covered 
along their whole outline with branching subdivi¬ 
sions which are v isible even on the forcipes them¬ 
selves : the eight hind legs are formed on a similar 
plan, 
