Calappa

( Bot. ) The Box crab, a genus of crustacea of the Decapods family. They have crested chelæ, which are large, equal, compre ed; with their upper edge, which is notched or crested, very much elevated, and fitting exactly to the external border of the shell or carapace, so as to completely cover the mouth and anterior parts; the rest of the feet short and simple; carapace short Fig. 474. - CALAPPA CRISTATA. and convex, forming be hind a vaulted shield, under which the posterior legs are hidden when the animal is in a state of repose; eyes mounted on short pedicles, and not far apart. There are several species widely diffused; some inhabit the seas of the Indian archipelago, and of New Holland; others are met with in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, the seas of South America, .; others, again, inhabit the Mediterranean sea. They frequent the fi ures of rocks, some of them at a great depth. The females deposit their eggs in summer. Cala'ry, in Ireland, a parish of co. Wicklow. Calas, JEAN, a Protestant merchant of Toulouse, memorable as the victim of judicial murder. His eldest son committed suicide; and as he was known to be attached to the Roman Catholic faith, a rabble cry arose that he had on that account been murdered by his father. It was in vain that the unhappy parent pointed out the fact that he had a Roman Catholic servant who was uninjured. He was condemned literally without the shadow of a proof of his guilt, and put to death by being broken on the wheel. Voltaire generously pleaded the cause of the unhappy family, the proce was revised, and the widow procured a pension. The unjust and ignominious death of C. took place in 1762. Calascibet'ta, a town of Sicily, Val di Cal tan i sett a, cant., 15 m. N.E. of the latter city; pop. 5,575.