Guide to the Crustacea, Arachnida, Onychophora and Myriopoda exhibited in the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History) .. . them, as already mentioned, have the habitof masking themselves with seaweed, sponges, etc. This habit isillustrated by some of the preparations in Wall-case No. 6, andevidences of it will be noticed on many of the specimens in thiscase. The members of the family Maiidac are known as Spider-crabs. In these, the chelipeds are very mobile, and are usuallynot much stronger than the other legs. The orbits are more orless incomplete. Among the specimens exhibite
Guide to the Crustacea, Arachnida, Onychophora and Myriopoda exhibited in the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History) .. . them, as already mentioned, have the habitof masking themselves with seaweed, sponges, etc. This habit isillustrated by some of the preparations in Wall-case No. 6, andevidences of it will be noticed on many of the specimens in thiscase. The members of the family Maiidac are known as Spider-crabs. In these, the chelipeds are very mobile, and are usuallynot much stronger than the other legs. The orbits are more orless incomplete. Among the specimens exhibited may be men-tioned Macropodia longirostris, a common British species whichhas the long and slender legs that are typical in the protcus is noteworthy for the leaf-like expansions of thecarapace; in life it is of an olive-green colour and is difficult todetect among the foliaceous sea-weeds which it frequents. Tothis family belongs the large Spider-crab of the South and West No. 14. Dccapoda—Bnichyu ra. 69 coasts of England, Mala stjniiKido, a large specimen of which is Table-caseexhibited in Wall-case No. 4. ^- ^^?. Fig. 46. Tlie (liaiit -lapanese Crab, Macnwlieira l:ar)iij)fcri, male. The scale of theliguue is given by a two-foot rule i)laced below the specimen. [Specimensof the male are mounted above Wall-cases B and 1, and one of the femaleabove Wall-casts 1 and 2.] Another noteworthy nienii)er of the family is the Giant•lapanese Crab Macroclicira (or Kaempfcria) h-acnipfcri (Fig. 4Gj,the largest of existing Arthropoda, of which two male specimens 70 Guide to Crustacea. Table-case and a female are mounted alDOve the Wall-cases at the south endNo. 14. Qf ^i^g Gallery. They were coloured after a drawing of a livespecimen by a Japanese artist. In the family Parthenopidae, the chelipeds are usually muchmore massive than the other legs, and the orbits are wellformed. The typical members of this family have taken to thesame habitat as the Oxystomata, burying them
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