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PORCELLANAD.E. 



DECAPOD A. 



ANOMOURA. 



PORCELLANADM. 



SPINOUS GALATHEA. 



Galathea strigosa. Fabr. 



Specific character. — Rostrum short, with one central spine, and three on each 

 side ; anterior feet broad, very spinous on both margins ; scarcely longer than 

 the bodies ; external pedipalps with the second joint longer than the third. 



Cancer striyosus, Linn. Syst. Nat. XII. 1053. Herbst, II. p. 50, t. xxvi. 

 Asiacus „ Penn. Brit. Zool. IV. p. 24, t. xv. 



Galathea striyosa, Fabr, Suppl. 414. Latr. Gen. Crust, et Ins. I. p. 49. 

 Leach, Edin. Encyc. VII. p. 398. Edw. Nat. Hist. 

 Crast. II. p. 273. 

 „ sjnniijcra. Leach, Make. Pod. Brit, xxviii. — B. 



This beautiful species resembles the former, G. squami- 

 fcra, in its general aspect, but may be distinguished from it 



