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is less than half as long as the penult joint, and armed below with a 

 minute supplementary unguiculus. The upper surface of the abdo- 

 men is sparsely clothed with long hairs. Color grayish. Length of 

 carapax, 0.22; breadth. 0.18; length of rostrum, 0.07 inch. 



It differs from G. spUwsirostris in its longer rostruni and in the 

 plumose character of the setce on the ambulatory feet. 



Found among coral at the depth of one fathom in Port Lloyd. 

 Bonin Islands. 



355. GALATHEA PUBESCENS Stimpson 



Galaihca piibcscois Stimpson, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., x, p. 2^2 [90], 

 1858. 



Carapax regularly or evenly convex, not much narrowed before ; 

 surface deeply strigose and conspicuously pubescent, the hairs or 

 ciliae of each ridge being nearly long enough to reach the next ridge. 

 Gastric region not well defined, and armed near the middle anteriorly 

 with three small spines, the median one situated a little behind the 

 other two. Lateral margins armed as in G. orient alis. Rostrum 

 large, acutely triangular, densely pubescent above, and 4-toothed on 

 each margin ; teeth very sharp, and raking forward. There is some- 

 times a supplementary tooth between the basal tooth and the second. 

 Chelipeds linear, very slender, sparsely setose and spinulose. but 

 with .spines smaller and less numerous than in G. oricntalis. Some- 

 tin->es there is, however, a strong spine on the carpus. Fingers of 

 the hand flattened, parallel, not at all gaping, and not as long as the 

 palm. Ambulatory feet of moderate length ; superior edge of meros- 

 joint armed with seven or eight very slender subdistant spinules ; 

 dactylus about half as long as the penult joint, .\bdomen pubescent. 

 Color reddish, sometimes with darker mottlings, and a median dor- 

 sal white stripe. In one specimen the length of the carapax was 

 0.22; breadth, 0.16 inch. In another, a female, length of carapax. 

 0.22; l)readth, 0.13; length of rostrum, 0.08; length of chelipeds, 

 0.4 inch. 



It was dredged fntm a sandy bottom in thirt\-thrco fath(Mns on 

 the east coast of ( )usima : also in twonty-tive fathoms, coarse sand 

 and shells, off the headland of llakodadi. Island of Jesso, Japan. 



356. GALATHEA SUBSQUAMATA Stimpson 



Galatlica subsiiiia)iuitu Stimi'S<i.\", Prdc. Acad. Xat. Sci. Pliila., x. p. 252 

 [90], 1858. 



Carapax depressed, scarcely narrowed anteriorly. The transverse 

 strig-re are few in number (onl\ three on the cardiac region), the 



