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Title: Journal of entomology and zoology
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.). Dept. of Zoology
Subjects: Entomology Insects Zoology Zoology
Publisher: Claremont, Calif., U.S.A. : Pomona College Dept. of Zoology
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ce and legs. Fig. 7 is of a young specimen.Opistliopus transvcrsus RathbunThough small, this is certainly one of our most beautiful species. The carapacerichly spotted with vermilion to deep red, is polished almost to pearly smoothness.Only a few of these were obtained. Fig. S illustrates an adult. 10-20 fathoms. Clythnicerus plana RathbunThough they could lay no claim to such beauty as the last named species, thesecrabs surelv received their full sliare of attention in the aquarium. They persist incarrying about upon their backs pieces of shell, pebbles, sticks, fragments of seaweed,or entire shells with their living contents and seem much embarrassed without somesuch covering. When placed in a glass dish where nothing else was available, oneseized a snail shell more than twice its own size and seemed perfectly content whenit had this firmly gripped upon its back. They are found in 15-20 fathoms of wateron gravel and shell beds. The two rear pairs of legs are peculiarly modified into
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