GALATHEA SPINIGERA. 
Tas. XXVIII. B. 
G. (x b) Pedibus anticis subgranulato-squamosis supra et utrinque spinosis, brachiis externe 
inermibus, } 
Astacus strigosus*. Penn. Brit. zool. TV. 18. pl. 14. 
Herbst tab. 26. fig. 2. 
Galathea strigosa. Fabr. Ent. Syst. 2.471. Supl. p. 414. 
Latr. Gen. Crust. et Ins. 1. 49. 
Leach Edin, Encycl. 7. 398. 
Fig. 1, Mas. 2, Ejusdem pullus. 
Galathea strigosa is a common species on most of the rocky shores of Great Britain. It has 
been confounded by all the authors who have noticed it, with Cancer strigosus of Linné, but as it 
will not agree with the description given in the twelfth edition of the Systema Nature and in the 
Fauna Suecica, I have been under the necessity of changing the specific name. 
Our figure is colored from a drawing most kindly sent to me by Mrs. Dorville, who drew 
it from a living specimen. 
In the young state the legs are most elegantly annulated with red and white, as exhibited in 
figure 2. 
* Alia et distincta species est Cancer strigosus Linnei ut hec indicant verba. ‘* Thorax obovatus margine utrinque 
spinis octo acuminatis antrorsum porrectis ciliatis, dorso rugis numerosis antrorsum imbricatis. Chele oblonge, 
depresse, margine aculeate, supra scabre, subtus quasi squamose; pedes apice rubri.” Fn. Sv. ed. alt. 2036. 
‘“‘ Brachia introrsum aculeata; chele oblonge, margine aculeate, latere superiore antrorsum imbricata scabritie 
eiliari.” Syst. nat. XII. 1053. 
