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manus, this species stares tte characters of Pagurus 

 and Clibananus, though its affinities are more with the 

 latter genus ; the chelipedes are subequal, a distinct ros- 

 tral projection is present, and the ocular peduncles are 

 tolerably long and slender ; at the same time the ophthal- 

 mic scales are arranged as in Pagurus.' He adds that 

 ' the special features of Olibanarius strigimanus are the 

 curious striated (stridulating ?) areas on the inner surface 

 of the hand of each chelipede, and the narrow and acute 

 terminal portions of the ophthalmic scales.' 



In Bell's 'History of British Stalk-eyed Crustacea,' 

 ten species are named and described as belonging to the 

 genus Pagu/rus, but the majority of them are now differ- 

 ently classified. Thus Pagurus Bernhardus (Linn.) and 

 Pagurus ulidianus, Thompson, both become Eupagurus 

 Bernhardkis (Linn.) ; Pagurus Prideaux (needlessly altered 

 to Prideauxii), Leach, and Pagurus cuanensis, Thompson, 

 are likewise transferred to Eupagurus, though retaining 

 their original specific names ; Pagurus Thompsonl, Bell, is 

 a synonym of Eupagurus puhescens (Kroyer), Pagurus For- 

 hesii, Bell, a synonym oi Eupagurus sculptivianus (Lncas),^ 

 and a British species not mentioned by Bell, Pagurus 

 tricarinatus, Norman, is now identified with Eupagurus 

 excavatus (Herbst). Pagurus Hyndmanni, Thompson, Pa- 

 gurus Imvis, Thompson, and another British species not 

 mentioned by Bell, Pagurus ferruxjineus, Norman, are now 

 transferred to the genus Anapagurus, the last-mentioned 

 being a synonym of Anapagurus chiroacantku^ (Lilljeborg). 

 All the nine species are at a glance distinguished from 

 Pagurus by having the right cheliped larger than the left. 

 In Bell's two remaining species the left cheliped is the 

 larger. Of these Pagurus Bilwynii, Sp. Bate, is a synonym 

 of Biogenes varians, Oosta, thus leaving to the original 

 genus no British species except Pagurus fasoiatus, Bell, a 

 species which may be the same as Pagurus striatus, La- 

 treille, and which, at any rate as far as Bell was con- 

 cerned, was not described from nature at all, but from a 



' G. O. Sars refers the Pagurus I'orbesii, Bell, to the genus Sjnro- 

 pagurus. 



