THE 
OVAL-TAILED CRAB. 
Generic Character. 
Legs generally eight, (in some species six or 
ten,) besides two claspcrs or chelated arms. 
Eyes two, commonly distant; footstalked, 
moveable. 
'Fail jointed. 
Specific Character, ^c. 
Long-tailed many-jointcd CRAB, with adac- 
tyle, ventricose, strait, angular arras, tri- 
dentated on the inner side. 
Runiph. THUS. t. 3. t. F. 
This sjiecics, though of nuicli sniallct size, is 
very nearly allied in point ot general leseinhlanec 
to the Cancer Mantis lately figured in the present 
work, and is a native ot the Indian seas. 
