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mdnus, this species shares the characters of Pagurus 

 and Olibana/ri/us, though its affinities are more with the 

 latter genus ; the chelipedes are subequal, a distinct ros- 

 tral projection is present, and the ocular peduncles are 

 tolerably long and slender ; at the same time the ophthal- 

 mic scales are arranged as in Pagurus.' He adds that 

 'the special features of Clibanarius strigimanus are the 

 curious striated (stridulating ?) areas on the inner surface 

 of the hand of each chelipede, and the narrow and acute 

 terminal portions of the ophthalmic scales.' 



In Bell's ' History of British Stalk-eyed Crustacea,' 

 ten species are named and described as belonging to the 

 genus Pagurus, but the majority of them are now differ 

 ently classified. Thus Pagurus Bernhardus (Linn.) and 

 Pagurus ulidiamis, Thompson, both become Eupagurus 

 Bernhardus (Linn.) ; Pagurus Prideaux (needlessly altered 

 fco Prideauxii), Leach, and Pagurus cuanensis, Thompson, 

 are likewise transferred to Eupagurus, though retaining 

 their original specific names ; Pagurus Thompsoni, Bell, is 

 a synonym of Eupagurus pubescens (Kroyer), Pagurus For- 

 lesii, Bell, a synonym of Eupagurus sculptimanus (Lucas), 1 

 and a British species not mentioned by Bell, Pagurus 

 tfi'-'irinatus, Norman, is now identified with Eupagurus 

 excavatus (Herbst). Pagurus Hyndmanni, Thompson, Pa- 

 gurus Icevis, Thompson, and another British species not 

 mentioned by Bell, Pagurus ferrugineus, Norman, are now 

 transferred to the genus Anapagurus, the last-mentioned 

 being a synonym of Anapagurus chiroacanthus (Lilljeborg). 

 All the nine species are at a glance distinguished from 

 Pagurus by having the right cheliped larger than the left. 

 In Bell's two remaining species the left cheliped is the 

 larger. Of these Pagurus Dilwynii, Sp. Bate, is a synonym 

 of Diogenes varians, Costa, thus leaving to the original 

 genus no British species except Pagurus fasciatus, Bell, a 

 species which may be the same as Pagurus striatus, La- 

 treille, and which, at any rate as far as Bell was con- 

 cerned, was not described from nature at all, but from a 



1 G. 0. Sars refers the Pagurus Forlesii, Bell, to the genus Spiro- 

 pagwus. 



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