HIGHER CRUSTACEA OF THE FIRTH OF CLYDE. 339 



specially common on the bank between the Cloch 

 Light and Inverkip Bay; one specimen from this 

 locality measures 4 J inches from tip of rostrum to 

 telson, and including chelipedes, lOJ inches; another 

 has the rostral spine completely twisted to one side. 

 Among a large number of specimens only a single 

 female occurred with ova, taken in the deepest part 

 of Loch Fyne in August. 



Genus Galathea, Fabr. 



GALATHEA SQUAMIFERA. 

 Galathea squamifera, Leach, Edin. Ency. vii., p. 393.— Bell, 

 Brit. Crust, p. 197. 



Galathea Fabricii, Leach, Ency. Brit. Supp. pi. xxi. 



Common under stones at low- water, Cumbrae 

 {Norman, Robertson, et nobis). Lamlash Bay, 

 dredged and between tide-marks (Herdman). We 

 took a single specimen in shallow ^^ater off Fairlie. 

 With ova in July. 



GALATHEA STRIGOSA. 



Cancer strigosus, Linn., Syst. Nat. xii., 1053. 

 Astacus ,, Penn., Brit. Zool. iv., p. 24, pi. xv. 



Galathea strigosa, Fabr., Suppl. Ent. Syst. p. 414.— Bell, Brit. 

 Crust, p. 200. 



Galathea spinigera, Leach, Malac. Brit. pi. xxviii. B. 



Cumbrae, under stones at low- water during spring 

 tides (Robertson). We dredged several young speci- 

 mens off Roseneath Point, 15 fathoms, hard ground. 



GALATHEA NEXA. 



Galathea nexa, Enibleton, Proc. Berwickshire Nat. Field Club. 

 —Bell, Brit. Crust, p. 204. 



Loch Fyne, 20-70 fathoms (M'Andrew). Off the Tan, 

 Cumbrae, 7-8 fathoms, gravelly mud (Robertson). 

 Lamlash Bay (Herdman). We took fine specimens 

 on the Skelmorlie Bank, oft' Wemyss Bay, and off 

 Cumbrae, in 6-40 fathoms. 



GALATHEA DISPERSA. 



Galathea dispersa, Spence Bate, Proc. Linn. Soc. Zool. vol. iii., 

 p. 3. 



