CRUSTACEA NORTH PACIFIC EXPLORING EXPEDITION 23I 



352. GALATHEA LABIDOLEPTA Stimpson 



Lialathca }alndoIc[^ta Stimpson, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.. x. p. 251 

 [89]. 1858. 



Carapax rather short, narrowing anteriorly ; surface strigose and 

 much pubescent ; gastric region not distinctly circumscribed, and 

 armed with two little spines anteriorly ; lateral margin armed with 

 eight minute spines, including two at insertion of antenna. Ros- 

 trum long, triangular, acute, and armed on each side with four 

 small, very slender teeth, including that situated above the eye. No 

 other tooth on the supraorbital margin. Outer angle of orbit acute, 

 Chelipeds rather stout ; upper surface uniformly roughened with 

 short spines and seta; ; margins armed with a few spines, of which 

 there are two short and one long one near the inner apex of the meros, 

 and one long one at that of the carpus ; hand with a thick palm, but 

 very slender fingers, which together are much narrower than the 

 palm, straight, and not toothed. Ambulatory feet spinulose and 

 verv sparsely hairy; meros-joint sufficiently broad, and provided on 

 superior margin with about ten weak spines ; lower margin of dac- 

 tylus armed with four small teeth, each bearing one movable spinule. 

 Colors : Carapax dark red, margined with white : abdomen varie- 

 gated with reddish aiul yellowish, with a white median spot on each 

 of the first two segments ; feet punctate with blue. The dimension.s 

 of a male specimen are: Length of the carapax, 0.32; breadth, 0.21 ; 

 length of rostrum, o.i i ; of chelipeds. 0.58 inch. Females are gener- 

 ally larger, the carapax in one being 0.4 inch in length. 



Dredged from a sandy bottom in twelve fathoms in Simons T.ay, 

 Cape of Good Hope. 



353. GALATHEA ORIENTALIS Stimpson 



Galaihca oricntalis Stimi'Sox, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., x, p. 252 [90], 

 1858. 

 The following description is that of a male. Carapax rather long 

 and narrow, becoming narrower anteriorly; surface, as usual, stri- 

 gose; pubescence on the strigse very short; gastric region not dis- 

 tinctly defined and two-spined in front, spines minute ; lateral margin 

 armed with six teeth or spines, including that above the insertion of 

 the antenna, but not the small inferior one. Rostrum large, sub- 

 triangular, and rather broad ; surface naked ; sides somewhat convex 

 and each armed with three acute equal teeth and one much smaller 

 one at the base. Eyes large. The tooth forming the external angle 

 of the orbit is mintite, sharp, and placed rather within than an- 



