SCALY GALATHEA. 



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DEC A POD A. 



ANOMOURA. 



PORCELLANAD/E. 



SCALY GALATHEA. 



Galaihea squamifera. LEACH. 



Specific character. Rostrum short, with one central spine, and four on each 

 side, the hinder one the smallest ; anterior feet broad,'flattened, covered with 

 squamiform tubercles ; the hands externally, and the wrists and arms internally 

 spinous. Third joint of the external pedipalps longer than the second. 



Cancer (astacus) squamifer, MONTAGU. 



Galatltea squamifera, LEACH, Edinb. Encycl. VII. p. 393. Diet. 



des Sc. Nat. XVIII. p. 51. Malac. Podoph. 

 Brit. t. xxviii. A. Emv. Hist. Nat. Crust. 

 II. p. 275. 



COUCH, Corn. Faun. p. 77. 

 THOMPS. Crust. Irel. 1. c. p. 105. 



THE carapace, exclusive of the rostrum, is a little longer 



