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each side- On the important character of the contorted smaller 

 chela, with its gaping fingers, both of them 

 strongly pilose on the inner margin, they are 

 agreed. That Stimpson speaks of the fourth joint in ^ the 

 walking legs as " gracilis" miay b: expla'ned by supposing him to 

 refer to the thickness of the joint, not to its breadth- 

 Locality: — False Bay. The Challenger specimens and Stimp- 

 son's were taken in Simon's Bay. Krauss describes his as very 

 common in the sinuosities of Eschara foliaceo, Linn-, on the ter- 

 races of the Natal coast. 



Fam. : Galatheidae. 



1899. Galalhcidae, Ortmann, Bronn's Thierrcich, Malacostraea, 



p. 1,150. 

 1901. Galatheidae, Alcock, Catal. Indian Deep-Sea Crust., 

 Macrura, and Anomala, p. 236- 



Though the family Galatheidae is not a new one. its present re- 

 striction is quite recent. Alcock distinguishes it from the com,- 

 panion family Uroptychidse as follows: — 



■■ The telson, which is not folded beneath the preceding 

 abdominal somite, is distinctly made up of plates which suggest 

 a tergum and a pair of appendages modified; the last thoracic 

 sternum is narrow, but well formed; the antennal peduncle 

 appears to be four-jointe^, the second and third joints being 

 united; the incisor edge of the mlandible is enltire; a foHaceous 

 epipodite is present on the first maxillipeds, and a flagelliform 

 epipodite is almost always present on the external maxillipeds.*' 



In Galathea and Munida the exopod of the first maxillipeds ter- 

 minates in a flagellum, and the eyes are facetted and n^cll- 

 pigmented, none of which characters belong to the genera 

 Muiiidol'sis and Galacantha- 



Gen.: Munida, Leach. 



1820. Munida, Leach, Diet- Sci. Nat., vol. 18, p- 52. 

 1853. Munida, Bell, Brit. Stalk-eyed Crust-, p. 206. 

 1888. Munida, Henderson, Challenger Anomura, Reports, vol- 



27, p. 123. 

 1888. Munida, Bonnier, Bull- Sci. FranceBelgique, ser. 3, vol- i, 



p. 78. 

 1894. Munida, A- Milne-Edwards and Bouvier, Crust, decap. 



Hirondeile, fasc- 7. Monaco, p. 83. 

 1901. Munida, Alcock. Catal. Indian Deep-Sea Crust., Macrura 



and Anomala. p- 237. 

 Numerous other references can be traced from the above, and 

 from the following account of a species. The characters used for 



