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Show 49G PROF. J. E. DUERDEN ONT CRABS [Dec. 12, the part of the crab, for the actinian is not attached, but held between the fingers of the Melici, and, if it be taken away, will be again seized. Usually there is an anemone in each hand, but sometimes one or both hands are empty. The actinians, which Text-fig. 73. w & a. Melia tessellata from the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes, bearing in each claw a sea-anemone; the crab is represented holding 011 to a living coral stock. b. The " hand " holding an anemone. Both enlarged. (After Borradaile.) c are grasped firmly round the middle below the tentacles, may be useful, by means of their stinging-cells, either for defence or to ‘ fish ' for food with, or perhaps for both purposes. The chelipeds |