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carrying its tadpoles, recently noticed by Kappler and by H. S. 

 Smith, was observed by Wyman, in Surinam, as early as 1857 

 (Proc. Best. Soc, Sept. 1857), and a description and figure were 

 published in the ' American Journal,' 2nd ser. vol. xxvii. 1859, 

 p. 5, fig. 1. The animal is named Hylodes lineatus, D. & B. ; but 

 it is quite clear from the figure that it is Dendrohates trivittatus, 

 Spix. The question of the sex of the parent remains obscure, for 

 although he speaks of it as " the mother," Wyman does not appear 

 to have investigated the matter. A specimen with young was for- 

 tunately ])reserved in the Museum of Comparative Anatomy at 

 Cambridge, U. S. A. 



On the Species o/ Galathea/ounr? on the Coasts of France. 

 By M. Jules Bonniee. 



All the carcinologists who have taken up the study of the Gala- 

 theidiB agree in recognizing the difficulties presented by these 

 Anomura iu the precise determination of the difl'erent species. I 

 was led to see the confusion that reigns in this group when, in the 

 course of researches which are being made by Professor Giard and 

 myself upon the Bopyrina, we arrived at the study of the genus 

 Pleurocnjpta. The necessity of establishing with certainty the 

 name of the host infested by each of our species of Epiearidse 

 determined me to undertake a preliminary study, if not of the entire 

 group, at least of the species most common on the French coasts. 

 I hope soon to publish the results of my observations, with the 

 necessary details and figures, in the ' Bulletin Scientifique,' and here 

 I will only give the new diagnoses which 1 propose for some common 

 and insufficiently described species. 



The genus Galathea is represented on our coasts by five species 

 which may be distinguished by the presence or absence and the 

 number of the epipodites on the thoracic feet, and then by the rela- 

 tive sizes of the ischiopodite and meropodite of the third maxillipcd. 



1. Galathea intermedia, Lillj. (= G. Andrewsi, Kin., G. Giardi, 

 T. Barr., G. Farroceli, Gourret). 



Upon the thoracic feet there is only a single pair of epipodites 

 placed on the first pair of feet ; carapace nearly smooth in the adult 

 and terminated by an acute triangular rostrum, with four pairs of 

 scantily developed lateral teeth ; two short spines upon the rostro- 

 gastric groove ; ischiopodite of the third maxilliped shorter than the 

 meropodite ; inner branch of the last three pairs of pleopoda in the 

 male only of a single joint. Besides the normal differences of the 



