16 NEW SPECIES OF HERMIT CRABS—BENEDICT. 
The ambulatory legs are slender. The dactyls are curved and spi- 
nose. The propodus and dactyl of the second pair on the left side are 
very thickly fringed with hair aboveand below. These articles are also 
seen to be wider and much more prominently grooved than the similar 
members of the other legs. As I have never seen this character be- 
fore, I conclude that it may be accidental. 
Color in alcohol, dark purple. 
Described from a single specimen from the Galapagos islands. 
Eupagurus hemphilli. 
Anterior portion of carapace very much longer than broad. Median 
projection of front sharp. From the projection the margin curves back, 
making a lobe between the eye and antenna, but no sharp angle. A 
sharp spine arms the lower margin at this point, making the front 
sharply tridentate in appearance. Between the spine and the outer 
angle is another concave space behind the antenna. The eye stalks 
are long and slender, a little constricted in the middle. The eye scales 
are small and sharp, with well developed subterminal spines. The 
peduncle of the antenna overreaches the eye a little. The acicle is 
much shorter than the eye-stalk. The antennula extends but little be- 
yond the eye. 
The right cheliped is long. The merus is much compressed, twice as — 
long as broad. Its outer surface is quadrilateral, smooth, almost glab- 
rous, with a few fine hairs in very small bunches. There is a very small 
tubercle at its lower posterior angle. The carpus is more than twice as 
long as broad; deep; upper surface convex; inner and outer surfaces 
flattened. The hand is fully twice as long as its greatest breadth. It 
is not so wide as the carpus at its articulation, but widens out uniformly 
and is widest at the base of the dacty]. Both fingers are much shorter 
than the palm. The carpus and hand are densely and evenly granulate. 
The granules are white. 
The small cheliped is much compressed and reaches but little beyond 
the carpus of the largecheliped. The carpus has a crest of about nine 
sharp spines and no trace of a rudimentary and second line. The hand 
is very much compressed, being no wider than the carpus. Its broad 
outer face is parallel with its inner. On the upper margin behind the 
gape is a deep suture extending from the carpus nearly to the base of 
the finger. The sides of this groove are armed with spiny granules. 
Both carpus and manus are very granular. 
The ambulatory legs are slender and much compressed. The carpus 
and propodus of the first one on the right side are armed on the upper 
border with small spines. The feet of the second pair are of almost 
even length and reach the middle of the large cheliped. The dactyls 
are short, curved, and spinulose. 
The color in alchohol is a bright red. There is a well marked light 
spot on the sides of the dactyls near the end. ; 
