GALATHEA. 
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Galathea squamifera, Mont. sp. Montagus Plated 
Lobster . — Beak short, wide, armed with nine spine-like teeth. 
Front legs wide, flattened, spiny on the sides, and furnished 
above with scale-like tubercles. Outer jaw-feet with the 
third joint much longer than the second. Greenish-brown, 
occasionally tinged with red. 
Under stones at low-water mark, south and west coast of 
England, Irish coast, Firth of Forth. The Rev. Alfred 
Norman found it at Cumbrae, in the Firth of Clyde. # 
Galathea strigosa, Linn. sp. Common Plated Lobster . 
(Plate VI. fig. 1.) — Beak triangular, and armed with seven 
strong, spine-like teeth. Front legs broad, very spiny, spined 
on both edges. Outer jaw-feet with the third joint shorter 
than the second. Red, with blue lines and spots. 
Found in deeper water than the last. Mr. Harris has 
found it as far north as the Moray Firth, and Dr. Howden 
takes it in deep water near the Bass, at the mouth of the 
Firth of Forth. 
Mr. Couch remarks of this species, in his ‘ Cornish Fauna* 
(p. 76), that it is “incapable of any motion but backward, 
and rarely rises above the bottom, w r here, by a laborious 
motion of its tail, it contrives to retreat from its enemies ; 
but its usual progress is creeping, and by the legs only.** 
