102 



J. U. KiNAHAN on the Britannic Species of 



smoothness and lesser amount of villosity of hands, and proportions of abdomi- 

 nal somites. 



From Galatkea Andrewsii it is at once separated by the comparative breadth 

 of first chelipads, squamulation of rostrum, and propodos of first chelipeds, and 

 comparative lengths of articulations of foot-jaws. 



embleton's galathea. 



GALATHEA NEXA. 



Galathea nexa (Embleton). 



Galathea nexa. Embleton, Proceedings Berwickshire Club ; Thompson, An- 

 nals of Natural History, p. 255 ; Natural History of Ireland, vol. iv., 

 p. 385; Bell, Brit. Stalk-eyed Crust., 204; White, Pop. Hist. Brit. Crust., 

 p. 88 ; Kinahan, Proceed. Nat. Hist. Soc, Dublin, vol. ii., excluding 

 p. 47, which refers to G. Andrewsii; Zoologist, 3rd series, p. 5775, &c. ; 

 Spence Bate, Proceed. Linn. Soc, vol. iii., p. 3. 



