GALATEA RUGOSA. 
Tas. XXIX. 
G. pedibus anticis introrsum presertim spinosis; abdomine segmento secundo antice 6, tertio 
4-spinosis. 
Astacus Bamffius. Penn. Brit. Zool. VV. pl. 13. 
Cancer rugosus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 2985. 149. 
Galatea rugosa. Fabr. Ent. Syst. 2.472.  Supl. 415. 2. 
Bosc Hist. nat. des Crust. 2. 87. 
Latr. Hist. Nat. des Crust. et des Insect. 6. 198. 
Galatea Longipeda. Lam. Syst. des Anim. sans Vert. 158. 
Galatea Bamffia. Leach Edin. Encycl. 7. 398. . 
Fig. 1, mas. 2, antenna interna. 3, maris senioris manus, digitos curvatos exhibens. 
Rondeletius seems to have been the earliest writer to whom this curious Galatea was 
known, and he has given an intelligible figure in his work “de piscibus,’’ page 542. 
Pennant next described it in his British Zoology, from a specimen taken near Bamff in 
Scotland, and communicated to him by the Rev. Mr. Cordiner. 
It appears to be a very rare species in Britain, as it occurs in but very few collections. 
In the winter of 1814 my friend Mr. C. Prideaux of Kingsbridge, obtained a fine male and 
female from the Trawl-fishers, who found them in the Plymouth Sound. These specimens were 
communicated to me for this work, and the male is represented in the plate, together with one of 
the internal antenne and a claw, showing the change that takes place in the form of this part 
in old specimens. 
Herbst has copied Pennant’s plate into table 27, fig. 3. of his work. 
