18 MACUURA. 



1877. Bellidia Huntii, Gosse, Ann. & Mag. Niit. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xx. 

 p. 313, pi. x. figs. a-e. 



1878. Bdlidia Huntii, Spence Bate, " On Bellidia Huntii of Gosse," 

 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. ii. p. 135. 



Stebbing (Hist, of Crustacea, 1893, p. 236) wrote : " In 

 the opinion of Czerniavsky, at least in 1869, viridis itself is 

 a synonym of Hippolyte Prideauxiana" Lest anyone should 

 be misled by supposing that Czerniavsky's figures relate to 

 //. viridis, it may be as well to mention that in the work 

 referred to, ' Materialia ad Zoographiam Ponticam coui- 

 paratam/ Czerniavsky makes viridis and Prideauxiana 

 synonyms of Virbius gracilis, Heller, and his figures are of 

 that species, and not of Prideauxiana. In his later work, 

 Fasc. ii. ' Crustacea Decapoda Pontioa littoralia/ 1884, he 

 corrects his synonymy, describing Brullei ( viridis) and 

 grac'dis as distinct species, and omitting Prideauxiana alto- 

 gether from his synonymy.* 



The usual colouring of this species is a brilliant green, 

 but Gosse writes of his Bellidia Huntii : " Colour a dark 

 rich crimson-lake, marked on the cephalothorax and abdomen 

 with well-defined vertical stripes of brilliant opaque white, 

 imparting a zebra-like aspect to the creature. The head 

 bears two longitudinal stripes of white on each side. The 

 entire length of the back is dark red, with a broad white 

 stripe running down the median line. All the limbs red. 

 The ova of a dark sea-green hue." We have given 

 Mr. Gosse's species as a synonym on Mr. Bate's authority, as 

 we could not have guessed it from the description and 

 figures. 



Bantham and Plymouth (Prideaux, fide LeacJi); Devon- 

 shire (Bell); Torquay (Gosse); Plymouth and Scilly Isles 

 (A. M. N.). 



SPIRONTOCARIS SPINUS (Sowerby) = S. securifons, S. I. Smith 

 (non Norman). 



Plymouth, 30 fathoms (Bate). We should scarcely have 

 expected this species to be found so far south. 



SPIRONTOCAEIS CRANCHII (Leach). 



1815. Hippolyte Cranchii, Leach, Malac. Podoph. Brit. pi. xxxviii. 

 figs. 17-21. 



1816. Pal&mon microramphos, Risso, Hist. Crust. Nice, p. 104. 



* Mr. Walker has recorded H. gracilis, Heller, from Jersey, Ann. 

 Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 7, vol. iii. 1899, p. 148, woodcut, fig. 2. 



