of British Columbia. 
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Tribe CATOMETOPA. 
Heterograpsus oregonensis Dana, 
Psendograpsus oregonensis Dana. U. S. Exploring Expedition Crust., 1851. 
Heterograpsus oregonensis Stimpson. Proc. Acad. Nat. §ci., Phila., 1858. 
Smith, S. J., Report of Geological Survey of Canada, 1878-79, p. 206 B. 
Carapax quadrate, narrower behind than in front, smooth, bluish-grey 
above, mottled with darker patches. A woolly patch on the inside of the 
hand in the male. Posterior feet hairy. Common between tides under 
stones. Victoria, Comox, Clayoquot, &c. — (C. F. N.) 
Provincial Museum, Victoria. 
Heterograpsus nudus Dana. 
Pseudograpsus nudus, Dana. E. U. S. Exploring Exped., Crust , pi. XX., fig 7. 
Heterograpsus nudus, Stimpson* Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1858. 
Smith, Rept. Geol. Survey of Canada, 1878-79, p. 206b. 
In shape like the last, but usually larger, dark purplish red above. 
Anterior feet large, pale purple sometimes nearly white, spotted with dark 
purple. Posterior feet smooth. Common along rocky shores ; lives, appar- 
ently, as much out of the water as in it. The Purple Shore Crab. 
Provincial Museum, Victoria. 
Fabia subquadrata, Dana. 
U. S. Exp. Exped. Crust. I. pp. 382. Plate XXIV. f. 5. 
Smith, S. J. Report of Geol. Surv. Canada, 1878-79, p. 206 B. 
Carapax slightly broader than long, naked and shining. Eyes very small. 
Victoria in the test of a living specimen of Echinus purpuratus (N. H. Soc.). 
Thurston Stewart Channel, Q. Charlotte Islands in large mussel (Dr. 
Dawson). 
Provincial Museum, Victoria. 
PlNNIXA FABA, Dana. 
Pinnothera faba, Dana, U. S. Exp. Exped. Crust. 1 p. 381. PI. XXIV., f. 4. 
Pinnixa faba, Stimpson, Journ. of Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VI., 1857, p. 470. 
Carapax smooth, shining, and very transverse; width being nearly double 
its length. Eyes small. Male smaller and broader in proportion than the 
female, and with larger hands. Very common in specimens of Schiozthserus 
Nuttalli, one of the largest clams of this coast. Victoria, Nanaimo, Comox 
and Clayoquot (C. F. N.). 
Provincial Museum, Victoria. 
