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DECAPOD A. 



ANOMOURA. 



PAGURID^. 



PACWRIDM. 



Pagurus Thompsoni, mihi. 



Specific Cliaracter. — The whole of the legs hispid and spinous ; anterior pair 

 unequal ; the wrist as long as the hand ; eye stalks extending to half the length 

 of the last joint of the peduncle of the external antennre ; antennal spine curved 

 outwards, and furnished with a row of small spines on the outer edge. 



The carapace is polished, but sparsely marked with im- 

 pressed dots ; the front nearly entire. The eye-stalks are 

 cylindrical, and furnished with a regular longitudinal series 

 of minute tufts of hair along the upper surface ; they extend 

 forwards to the middle of the last joint of the peduncle of 

 the external antennae. The antennal spine is curved out- 

 wards, spinous and hairy on its outer edge. The internal 

 antennffi are half as long again as the peduncle of the 

 external. The anterior feet very unequal, bristly, and 

 spinous ; the larger hand twice as long as it is broad, 

 hairy, beset with spinous tubercles, of which there is a 

 stronger series along the outer side ; the moveable finger with 



