A Synopsis of the British Faguridm. 71 



Mediterranean (Eoux and others), off the Portuguese coast 

 ('* Porcupine "), Bay of Biscay in deep water ('' Challenger " 

 and " Travailleur "), St Vincent Harbour, Cape Verdes 

 ("Challenger"), Goree Island, Senegambia (Miers), Nor- 

 wegian coast (G. 0. Sars). 



EUPAGURUS PUBESCENS. 



Pagurus puhescens, Kroyer, Conspect. Crust. Groenl., Naturh. Tidsslcr. ii., 



p. 251 (1839) ; Id., in Gairaard, Voyages en Scandinavie, pi. ii., fig. 1 



(1849). 

 Fagurus Thonipsoni, Bell, Brit. Crust., p. 372 (1853); White, Pop. Hist. 



Brit. Crust., p. 78 (1857). 

 EiLjMgurus puhescens, Stimpson, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phil., p. 75 (1858). 

 Eupagurus Kroyeri,^ Stimpson, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phil,, p. 75 (1858); 



Id., Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist., vol. vii., p. 89 (1859). 



Eyestalks reaching the middle of the last joint of the 

 antennular and antennal peduncles respectively. Chelipedes 

 pubescent, armed with tubercles which tend to become spiny. 

 Eight chelipede with the wrist equal in length to the hand, 

 and furnished with spines on its inner border. Left cheli- 

 pede with a central carina extending along the upper surface 

 of the hand. Ambulatory limbs pubescent and spiny. 

 Length, 2 inches. 



^(x&.— Belfast Bay (Hyndman) ; Shetland, common 

 (Norman) ; from Northumberland and Durham to the 

 western limit of the Dogger Bank (Norman) ; Firth of Forth 

 (Henderson) ; Firth of Clyde, common (Henderson and 

 others). It is probably common at many points round the 

 Scotch coast. 



This species ranges from the British seas to Greenland 

 and Spitzbergen, and is apparently common at considerable 

 depths in the Norwegian fiords (Sars and others). It occurs 

 also along the Atlantic coast of North America, and has 

 been taken in abundance down to depths of 500 fathoms by 



1 I follow the Rev. Dr Norman and others in regarding this a variety of 

 E. puhescens, though Prof. S. I. Smith considers it a good species. It only 

 differs from E. puhescens in the absence of hairs from the chelipedes and legs, 

 and in possessing a sharper carina on the left hand. The two occur together 

 in many British localities, but the var. Kroyeri appears to be more prevalent 

 in deep water. 



