A J - T E J S . A .
I.oru/an .¡etda
A P T E R A .
C A N C E R M A N T I S .
S P E C I F I C C H A R A C T E R ,
8 T N 0 N Y M K .
Hand claws without tarfi, corapreflcd, hooked, ferrated, with teeth. Boc> n g u la te d . Tail ferrated,
.Hid armed with fpine®.
C an-c e s M a n t i s ; m a c r o u r u s a n '. r a l a r l s , r a a n ih u ’ ? o p r c f lis f a lc a t i s f e r r a to - d e n i a t l s .
y - r Sfi. Xaf. - ■ ‘ .
Njuilla Mantis; raanibua adadj-lis comprellis lah. i.i®, i e i ; : . f e dentatis, tx-rpore fubar.gulato, cauda
ferrato fpinofa. Fab. Ent. Syfi. T. 3 . / . 311.
i i.x Mur..-i,,n ife* ■ •> • •-Mtrons, and include ru.iny fpeciei not itis lingular in appearance ri.r.r. the
exlrao’-d' 'ry crcaiuic bi ‘ <r<;- v . Indeed, fom? fpccici are ib exti-uvriv d 'ittre n t Iron' tl,? refi both in
ftruclure and manueri of life, that we cannot hefit.u ' in c„ ;t;u.Uag thc Linnæan chai?i er o f th.' genur
defcdivc and indefinite. This may Y; obferved iu feveral o f the fpecies Linnæus himfelf defcribed, and
throughout a mcv- i vtenfive numb r of thofe Vo. <vi;rcd fince the time of that author. It is evident
Liiinæub could ' i> toncilc the fundivifions o f 'o r Iwo principal families} the Brachyuri and Macrouri-,
or crabs with .7 and long ta ils , aud later na'O! fe'lts have ventured, with p rqirie ty, to alter this part of
his arrangr;,'.-. ! Ih c Pagarus, H iffa , S.ylL ni fl ii-us, S qU N , and Gammarus, arc fo many new
genera, formai •>! >hc Linnaan tribes o f Cancri in : ■ i.»fl Syliera of Fabricius. T h c genus, to which
Fabricius retaic ;hr name Cancer, u diftinguiihrd fr ; rht r e - , by having four Ihort filiform antennæ ;
with the extrwac irticuUtion bifid, a s w r obferve in pK- ■ ling fpecies. This author follows Degeer
in defcribing the Cancer Mantis, aud alters the gciu-r.. name to Squilla ; he obferves, that this genus is
entirely diftlnd trom the Cancri, and wi n < o f the i. r. opinion, but adhere to the Linnæan genera, be-
caufe thc fpecies, Mantis, was deicribed by T.inn.a '-;. and il may be improper therefore to remove it, to a
new genus, in any partial furvcy o f his fyftem. ' ' ' ? Cancer Mantis is not peculiar to China.