488 Br. Henry Woodward — Cretaceous Crustacea y Denmark. 



In Miss Birley's collection there is (in addition to various 

 portions) an entire carapace of Galathea which agrees best with 

 Galathea munidoides, K. 0. Segerberg (PI. XII, Fig. 8). I have also 

 referred to this species the small detached chela (PL XII, Fig. 9). 

 I mentioned the carapace of Galathea in my second year's 

 Anniversary Address to the Geological Society of London.^ 



The subjoined descriptions have been most obligingly translated 

 for me by Mr. C. A. Eyman, from Mr. K. 0. Segerberg's paper 

 " De Anomura och Brachyura Dekapoderna inom Skandinaviens 

 YngreKrita."" 



MACROURA— ANOMALA. 



Fam. GALATHEID^, Dana. 



1888. Galatheidm, Henderson: Anomura, p. 116. 



1894. Gaiatheides, Milne -Edwards et Bouvier : Galatheides, p. 191. 



1897. Galatheides, Milne-Edwards et Bouvier: Dredging by "Blake," sxxv. 



One often finds both in the coral-chalk and the Bryozoan-chalk 

 fragments or casts of carapaces with those peculiar cross striee which 

 are characteristic of the different genera of this family. Steenstrup 

 had already noticed these, and created the species Galathea strigifera. 

 Lundgren was the first who attempted to describe and illustrate such 

 fragments. Along with these Crustacean remains are found small 

 claws, which from their size, flat form, and finely serrated edges 

 agree with the type peculiar to this family. Von Fischer-Benzon 

 was the first who noticed and identified these claws. This is all that 

 is mentioned about the fossil representatives of this group in the 

 earlier literature. In 1897 Moericke has contributed some valuable 

 information on the genus Galathea in " Die Crustaceen der 

 Sternberger Schichten." In this are recorded no less than four 

 species of this family from the youngest Jurassic formation, all, 

 however, of a type alien to the Danian. We may also refer to 

 Pelseneer (Decapod, du Maestricht, p. 166) and Eistori (Crost. 

 Pliocen, p. 36). 



"When studying the collections from Faxe in the Mineralogical 

 Museum at Copenhagen, K. 0. Segerberg says, " I was fortunate 

 enough to find amongst the matrix of Bryozoan-chalk several well- 

 preserved specimens with the rostrum in more or less good condition. 

 By means of this material I have also been able to give a complete 

 description of Galathea strigifera, Steenstrup." [This species is 

 not represented in Miss Birley's collection.] 



Galathea strigifera, Steenstrup, sp. 



? Galathea strigifera, Steenstrup, sp. 



1866. ,, ,, Yon Fischer-Benzon : Das Alter d. Faxekalkes, p. 28, 



pi. V, figs. 4-6. 



1867. ,, ,, Lundgren: Faxekalken, p. 11. 



1900. ,, ,, Segerberg: De Anomura och Brachyura Dekapoderna in. 



Skandinav. Yngre Krita, pi. i, figs. 1,2? 



1 Quart. Joum. Geol. Soc, February 21, 1896, vol. Hi, p. cviii. 



2 Geol. Fbren. I Stockholm Forhandl., 1900, Bd. xxii, H. 5, pp. 42, 3 plates. 



