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others being recorded for the sandy bottom stations. Three specimens 
were taken on the fishing grounds by the commercial trawlers, July, 
1912. As recorded during the survey the bottom temperature and 
salinity ranges for the species are respectively 9.4° to 11.1° C and 
33.1 to 34.3. 
Pagurus capillatus (Benedict) 
Eupagurus capillatus Benedict, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 15, 8, 1892. 
Pagurus capillatus Holmes, Occas. Papers Calif. Acad. Sci., 7, 138, 1900; 
Rathbun, H. A. E., 10, 157, pl. 4, fig. 3, 1904. 
Pagurus trigonochirus Balss, Abh. der k. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. II, Math.-phys. 
Klasse, Suppl, 9 Abh., p. 68, 1913 (part). 
a b 
Fig. 85. Pagurus capillatus, about natural size; a, large (right) cheliped with 
hairs removed to show spining; b, dorsal view of anterior portion, with hands 
unfortunately foreshortened (U. 8S. N. M.). 
Characters.—Anterior portion of carapace a little longer than wide; median 
projection of front broadly rounded, lateral projections each armed with an acute 
submarginal tooth. Eye-stalks long and slender, more than two-thirds as long as 
the anterior portion of the carapace. Acicle not quite reaching the tip of the eye. 
Large hand rather sparsely set with sharp stout spines; both hands very hairy, 
hairs much longer than the spines, often holding mud and dirt. Ambulatory legs 
stout; dactyls slightly twisted. 
Dimensions.—Type, male: length of carapace 26 mm., of anterior portion of 
carapace 15 mm., width of anterior portion 14 mm., length of larger cheliped 
72 mm., of hand 30 mm. 
