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Pagurus Prideauxii, Leach. Prideaux’ s Hermit Crab . 
—Second and third pairs of legs with the edges nearly 
smooth; their tarsal joint straiglitish, grooved on the sides, 
and very gradually diminishing in thickness towards the 
end. Hands simply granulated. 
First sent from Plymouth Sound by Mr. Prideaux to Dr. 
Leach, who named it after him. It has been found in other 
parts of the English, Irish, and Scottish coasts. The shell, 
inhabited by this Hermit Crab, is frequently parasitically 
invested by the curious Adamsia maculata . The Lev. 
Alfred Norman finds it to be very abundant in the Clyde ; 
he says, “ I have never found the Adamsia associating with 
P. Bernhardus 
Pagurus Cuanensis, Thompson. — Pore feet unequal, 
hispid, spinous; the palpus of the outer antennae as long as 
the eye-stalk ; their basal tooth denticulate on the inner 
side, half as long as the palpus. 
A species found by Mr. Thompson at Portaferry and in 
Bangor Bay, and by Dr. Drummond in Belfast Bay. The 
Bev. G. Gordon finds it in the Moray Eirth, and Mr. Eyton 
off the Isle of Man. The Bev. Alfred Norman finds it fre- 
quent at Weymouth, and at Cumbrae, and Lamlash Bay in 
the Eirth of Clvde. 
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