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Chap. IX.
Crustaceans.
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weapons well adapted for fighting. Thus when a Devil-crab (Portunus puber) was seen by a son of Mr. Bate fighting with a Carcinus mænas, the latter was soon thrown on its back, and had every limb torn from its body. When several males of a Brazilian Gelasimus, a species furnished with immense pincers, were placed together in a glass vessel by Fritz Müller, they mutilated and killed one another. Mr. Bate put a large male Carcinus mænas
Fig. 8. Orchestia Darwinii (from Fritz Müller), showing the differently-constructed chelæ of the two male forms.
into a pan of water, inhabited by a female which was paired with a smaller male; but the latter was soon dispossessed.
