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Natural History 
Xantho Bella Stimpson. 
Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist., New York, Vol. VII., 1860, p. 204. 
Carapax rather broad, its length being to its breadth in the proportion of 
one to one-and-a-half. It is somewhat octagonal in shape, and its antero 
lateral margin is armed with strong triangular teeth posteriorly, the middle 
one being the most prominent. Its surface is areolated, smooth, and 
glabrous for the most part. Front moderately projecting, deeply fissured 
at the middle. Chelipeds smooth and glabrous, hand short, fingers black. 
Colour yellowish. Lives under rocks at low water, and occasionally 
dredged in ten fathoms. 
Victoria, (Rev. G. W. Taylor, C. F. N.) Salt Spring Island, Comox and 
Clayoquot Sound, (C. F. N.) Also reported from Puget Sound and 
Monterey. 
Tribe CO RY STOIDEA. 
Telmessus cheiragonus Tilesius. 
Cancer cheiragonus Tilesius. Mem. de Acad, de St. Petersb., V., 1815, p. 347. 
Telmessus scrratus White. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. XVII., 1846, p. 497. 
Cheiragonus hippocarcinoides Stimpson. Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. VI., 1857, p. 465. 
Telmessus cheiragonus Benedict. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. , XV., 1892, p. 224. 
PI. XXV. and XXVI. (This paper gives full synonymy). « 
Surface of carapax scabrous and setose, with large triangular serrated 
lateral teeth, of which there are four on the antero lateral and two on the 
posterior margin, the outer one on each side being much the largest. The 
inter-antennary front has four small equal teeth. — -(Stimpson). 
Colour yellowish. Very common and of large size in the Lagoon at 
Esquimalt, B. C., Strait of Georgia, Nanaimo, Comox, Clayoquot Sound. 
(C. F. N.) Queen Charlotte Islands. — (Dr. Dawson.) 
Trichocarcinus oregonensis Dana. 
Trichocera oregonensis Dana. U. S. Exploring Expedition, Crust. 1, p. 299. PI. 
XVIII., f. 5. 
Stimpson, Bost. Journ. of Nat. Hist., Vol. VI., p. 464, 1857. 
Trichocarcinus oregonensis Micrs. Proc. Zool. Soc., London, 1879, p. 34. 
Smith, S. J.. Rep. Geol. Survey of Canada, 1878-79, p. 207 b. 
Not unlike small cancers, but the carapax is more rounded, and with thir- 
teen teeth on each side. Leg hairy, antennae long. Colour purplish brown, 
sometimes red. Finger and thumb black. Generally distributed. Low 
water to 25 fms. (C. F. N.) 
Provincial Museum, Victoria. 
