

CANCER MAMMILLARIS. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Feet eight, claws two. Eyes two, diftant from each other, and placed on a kind of footftalk ; moveable. 
Palpi two large, furnifhed with claws. Tail articulated, and without fting. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Thorax nearly oval, fpinous. Three fpines on each fide, beak fhort, with three teeth. 
Cancer Mammrziarts: thorace ovato aculeato utrinque trifpinofo, roftro brevi tridentato. 
Fab. Ent. Syft. T.2. p. 465. 91. 

ologia Syftematica of Fabricius we find a {pecies of Cancri defcribed, that feems to agree 
The fpecific charaéter affigned by that author is however lefs fatisfaCtory than the 
In the Entom 
with our fpecimen. 
general defcription he has added. The two red fpots are very characteriftic. 
Fabricius met with this creature in the cabinet of Spengler, and notes its habitat China. It is worthy 
of remark, that this is the only fpecies of the Cancer genus, Fabricius mentions as a native of that 
country. 





