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PORCELLANAD.E, 



DEC A POD A. 



ANOMOURA. 



PORCELLANADJE. 



EMBLETON'S GALATHEA. 



Galathea nexa. Embleton. 



Sjvcifc character. — Hands hairy, without spines ; external pedipalps with tlie 

 second joint longer than the third. 



(ialafhca ncra, Embleton, in Proceedings of the Berwickshire Club. 

 „ „ Thompson, Annal. Nat. Plist. 1. c. p. 255. 



The characters of this species approach nearly to those 

 of the two former species, and in some respects are inter- 

 mediate between them. The principal characters which 

 disting-uish it from those species, are in the armatnre of 

 the hands, and the relative proportion of the different 

 joints of the external pedipalps. Agreeing with G. squa- 

 mifera in the absence of spines in the hand, being, in fact, 

 more free from them than that species, and thus more 

 especially diftering from G. striffosa, it agrees with the 



