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DEC APOD A. 

 BRACHYURA. 



PAGURIDsE. 



BOUGH-CLAWED HERMIT CRAB. 



Pagurus Forbesii. Mihi. 



Specific Character. Eye-stalks club-shaped, as long as the basal portion of 

 the internal antennse ; hand with irregular depressions, rough and strongly 

 serrato-denticulate on the inner side. 



OF this strongly characterised species, the carapace is 

 subordinate, smooth. The external antennae longer than 

 the anterior pair of legs ; the tooth at their second joint, 

 extending to the extremity of the third joint of the basal 

 portion ; the palp nearly as long as the basal portion of 

 the antennse, slightly curved, and fringed with a few long 

 hairs. The eye-stalks are club-shaped, as long as the 

 basal portion of the internal antennse. The anterior feet 

 slightly unequal, the right being the longer ; the wrist 

 and hand roughly granulated ; the inner margin of the 

 wrist toothed ; the hand ovate ; the surface of the right 

 with irregular depressions ; the margins strongly serrato- 

 denticulate. The second and third pairs of legs are slightly 



