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foregoing. Of a dirty brown colour and hairy. 

 First pair of legs broad and fringed with setae. 

 Lives under stones and rocks, usually those 

 encrusted with other growth, hence it is difficult to 

 detect unless it move. 



Galatfica str'igosa. Animal lobster-shaped, but flat, 

 fifth pair of legs being, of course, rudimentary as with 

 all the Anomoura. Carapace corrugated, reddish- 



processes. Lives chiefly under stones, where it may 

 be found at extreme low water. 



Pagitrtts Ber?!hardjts. Common hermit crab. 

 Lives in the dead shells of molluscs. Abdominal 

 segments soft. First pair of legs unequal in size. 

 Common on nearly all the shores. 



Pagiiriis Prideauxii, F. cnaueiisis and one or two 

 other species have been obtained occasionally, but 

 they are rare, and their distinguishing characteristics 

 cannot be described briefly. 



Fig. 114. — Porcellana platycheles. 



Fig. 116. — Peigurus Benihardus. 



Fig. 115. — Galathea strigosa. 



brown strikingly marked with blue. First pair of 

 legs spiny, tail broad. Length of animal about four 

 inches. Often taken in "pots" and is common 

 generally. 



Galathea sqiiamifera. As above, but smaller and 

 of a duller brown. Spines replaced by scale-shaped 



Fig. iif.— Galathea squatHifera. 



Macrura. 



Falima-tis quadricor/iis. The sea cray-fish or 

 spiny lobster is a well-known animal as an article 

 of food. It is chiefly taken by means of pots, 

 in somewhat deep water on the north coast of the 

 island. 



Calllanassa subteii-aiica. Animal averaging about 

 three inches inlength, of which theabdomen, composed 

 of rather soft segments, consists of about two-thirds. 

 Cephalo-thorax cylindrical. First pair of legs very 



