1() MACRURA. 



Fam. 10. N i K i D M. 



NlKA EDULIS, RISSO. 



Torcross (Montagu}-, Start Bay (A. M. N.}\ Plymouth 

 (Bate}-, Falmouth (Cocks). 



NIKA COUCHII, T. Bell. 



The type, and as yet the only recognized specimen, was 

 procured by Couch on the coast of Cornwall. 



Fam. 11. ALPHEID^E. 



ALPHEUS RUBER, H. Milne-Edwards. 



Plymouth, not uncommon in 30 fathoms (Bate); Polperro 

 (Laughriri) in Mus, Nor.}\ Falmouth (Cocks}. 



ALPHEUS MACROCHELES (Hailstone). 



183-5. Hippolyte rubra, Westwood, Loudon's Mag'. Nat. Hist. 



vol. viii. p. 272 (but not A. ruber, Milne-Edwards). 

 1835. Hippolyte macrocheles, Hailstone, ibid. p. 395. 

 1835. Dienttcia ntbra, Westwood, ibid. p. 552. 

 1837. Alpheus Edwardsii, Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. des Crust. 



vol. ii. p. 352 (but not of Audouin). 

 1840. Cryptophthahniis ruber, Costa, Fauna del Regno di Napoli, 



Crost. pi. vii. tig. 1. 



1850. Dicnecia rubrn, White, Cat. Brit. Crust, in Brit. Mus. p. 41. 

 1854. Alplmis ctffinis, Guise, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, vol. xiv. 



p. 275. 

 1857. Alpheus affinis, White, Popular Hist. Brit. Crust, p. 112. 



1862. Alphcu.s platyrhynchus, Heller, " Beitrage zur uiiheren Kennt- 

 niss der Macrouren," Sitz. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-naturw. 

 01. vol. xlv. p. 400, pi. i. tigs. 21-24. 



1863. Alpheus plakyrkynchus, Heller, Crust, siidl. Europa, p. 276, 

 pi. ix. tigs. 18, 19. 



1868. Al/ihens Edwardsii, Bate. Brit. Assoc. Rep. for 1867, p. 283 ; 



and Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. ii. p. 119. 

 1868. Alpheus mef/achffes, Norman. "British Species of Alphevs, 



Ttjpton. and Arius" Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. ii. 



p. 175 \meyacheles by error for macrocheles]. 



Off the Dodman and off Plymouth, not uncommon 

 (Bate}. As there has been so much confusion with regard 

 to this interesting species, the synonymy which was given in 

 A. M. N/s paper of 18G8 is here repeated. 



AT HAN AS NITESCENS (Montagu). 



Tide-marks, Exmouth and Salcombe (A.M. N.}\ Polperro 

 (Bate); Falmouth (Cocks). 



