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PAGURID^. 



DECAPOD A. 



ANOMOURA. 



PAGURID.E. 



Pagurus cuanensis. Thompson. 



Specific ClKtracter. — Anterior feet unequal, hisped, spinous ; the palp of the 

 external antennae as long as the eye-stalk ; their basal tooth denticulate on the 

 inner side, half as long as the palp. 



Pagurus cuanensis, Thompson, Report on the Fauna of Ireland, (Report of 



Brit. Assoc. 1843. p. 267.) 



This is the largest of four new species of Pagurus, 

 discovered by Mr. W. Thompson and named by him, 

 though without any description or specific character, in 

 his interesting report on the Fauna of Ireland, read before 

 the British Association for the Advancement of Science 

 at their session in 1843. 



The carapace has the anterior margin slightly waved, 

 without any rostral projection. The eye-stalks are very long, 

 exceeding the basal portion of the external antenna? ; the 

 basal tooth of these half the length of the palp, straight, 

 acute, denticulate on the inner side ; the palp at least as 

 long as the eye-stalk, curved, and furnished with long, stiff, 

 adpressed hairs on the inner side. The anterior legs are un- 

 equal, the right the larger, covered with long stiff hair, and 

 furnished with numerous spinous tubercles ; the wrist with 

 a row of strong short spines on the upper margin ; the 



