200 



PORCELLANAD.E. 



DEC APOD A . 

 ANOMOURA, 



PORCELLANAD/E. 



SPINOUS GALATHEA. 



Galathea strigosa. FABR. 



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

 side ; anterior feet broad, very spinous on both margins ; scarcely longer than 

 the bodies ; external pedipalps with the second joint longer than the third. 



Cancer strigosus^ 

 Astacus 

 Galatliea strigosa. 



spimgera, 



LINN. Syst. Nat. XII. 1053. HERBST, II. p. 50, t. xxvi. 



PENN. Brit. Zool. IV. p. 24, t. xv. 



FABR. Suppl. 414. LATR. Gen. Crust, et Ins. I. p. 49. 



LEACH, Edin. Encyc. VII. p. 398. EDW. Nat. Hist. 



Crust. II. p. 273. 

 LEACH, Malac. Pod. Brit, xxviii. B. 



THIS beautiful species resembles the former, G. squami- 

 fera, in its general aspect, but may be distinguished from it 



