ANOMOURA GALATHEIDEA. 4gl 



Beak broad and large, triangular, but little oblong, slenderly acute at 

 apex, and having four slender spines or spiniform teeth on either 

 side, the posterior spines small, and between them, on surface of 

 carapax, two minute spinules. Anterior feet spinous, slender. No 

 median area. Abdomen near base either side rounded. 



Plate 30, fig. 9 a, front of carapax, much enlarged ; b, second and 

 third joints of outer maxillipeds, ibid. ; c, anterior legs, ibid. 



Sandwich Islands. 



The breadth of the beak at base is full two-thirds its length, and 

 the spiniform teeth either side of it are long and narrow triangular. 

 The third joint of the outer maxillipeds is rather longer than the 

 second, and has two spines on inner side, one of them apical. 



Galathea vitiensis. 



Rostrum oblongo-triangulatum, dimidh carapacis multo breviores, late- 

 ribus rectis, regulariter ^.-serratis, Carapax lateribus totis paulo den- 

 tatus, angulo antico prominente, acuto; area mediand circumscripta^ 

 posticd bene semicirculari. Abdomen juxta articulationem basalem 

 utrinque rotundatum. 



Beak oblong triangular, one-third as long as carapax, sides straight, 

 regularly four-serrate. Carapax with the sides for their whole 

 length somewhat dentate, anterior angle prominent and acute. 

 Median area circumscribed, the outline behind regularly semi- 

 circular. Abdomen at base on either side rounded. 



Feejees, about corals. 



Plate 30, fig. 10 a, animal, enlarged, figure not completed ; b, por- 

 tion of flagellum of second antennae, more enlarged. 



Length, one-fourth of an inch. Nearly colourless. The abdomen, 

 as seen in an upper view, flexed so as to be in its natural position, is 

 very broad cordate in outline, rather broader than long, with the 



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