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end of the carpus; fingers smooth, more or less pubescent below, the 

 dactyl provided with a crest which is a continuation of the elevated mar- 

 gin of the hand; the opposite margin is continued as a similar crest upon 

 the pollex. Ambulatory legs slender, glossy, nearly naked, the upper 

 margins of the last three joints more or less spinulous; dactyls slightly 

 longer than the propodi. 



Alaska! 



Genus Paguristes Dana. 



Front with a distinct rostral projection. Ocular peduncles long and 

 slender, the scales of moderate size. Antennules long. Antennal acicle 

 robust, flagellum ciliated. Chelipeds equal or subequal, the fingers mov- 

 ing in a horizontal plane. Fourth pair of pereopods not chelate. The 

 first two abdominal segments in the male and the first segment in the 

 female bear sexual appendages. 



Type. P. lonfjirostris DANA . 



Paguristes turgidus (St.). 



Eupagurus turgidus STIMPSON, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. VI, 1857, 



p. 86. 

 Clibanarlus turgidus STIMPSON, Journ. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. VI, 1857, 



p. 484, PI. XXI, fig. 1. Bate in Lord's Nat. in Vancouver's Is., Vol. 



II, 1866, p. 278. WHITEAVES, Can. Nat. (2), Vol. VIII, 1878, p. 471. 

 Paguristes turgidus STIMPSON, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1858, p. 236; 



Ann. N. Y. Lye. Nat. Hist., Vol. VII, 1860, p. 86. SMITH, Rep. Prog. 



Geol. Sur. Canada, 1878-9, B, p. 211. WALKER, Trans. Liverpool, 



Biol. Soc., Vol. XII, 1898, p. 275. 



Carapace pubescent, the anterior portion longer than wide. Front tri- 

 deutate, the median tooth much the largest. Ocular peduncles over one- 

 third the length of the anterior portion of the carapace. Antennal acicle 

 armed with several dark-tipped spines on the inner margin; flagellum 

 short. Chelipeds hairy above, the upper surface covered with dark-tipped 

 spines; fingers corneous tipped. Ambulatory legs hairy, the dactyls a 

 little longer than the propodi. Attains a length of about three inches. 



Puget Sound (Stimpson); Vancouver's Is. (Smith); 

 Farallon Islands! Santa Catalina Is.! 



Paguristes parvus, sp. nov. 



Rostrum long, narrow and acute. Ocular scales cut into three spines. 

 Ocular peduncles pubescent, enlarged at the base, and exceeding the 

 peduncle of the antennae Acicle pubescent, reaching nearly to the tip of 



