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PAGURIDJE. 



" The false feet in the female are long and feathery, and 

 divide at the base. 



" The most striking difference between this and other 

 British species of the Pagurida, is exhibited in the form 

 of the first pair of feet, and the length of the external 

 antennae. 



" Having met with only this solitary specimen, it is im- 

 possible to say but that the right foot of the first pair, 

 which is usually the longer, may be in the process of being 

 reproduced from loss ; although I am inclined, from its 

 well-developed character, to believe that the left is in this 

 species the more important of the two. The false feet, 

 which in the female are generally forked, are so in this 

 specimen, but very much nearer to the base than in the 

 common species. 



" It burrows very rapidly in the sand. Taken near the 

 Worms Head, Swansea. 



" Mr. Couch has informed me, since this has been in the 

 hands of the printer, that he has also found the species in 

 Cornwall. 



" The name applied to this species is one long-known to 

 science, and honoured as the stimulator of natural history 

 in this locality in the person of L. W. Dillwyn, Esq., 

 Sketty Hall." 



The foregoing description and figure are copied from 

 those given by Mr. Spence Bate, in the " Annals of Natural 

 History," as I have never seen the species. 



