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surface of the right hand are also almost obsolete iu some iudividuals. The difference in 

 size is, however, the only one of importance. 



In spite of the disparity iu size this can only be regarded as a remarkably dwarfed 

 variety of the above species, possibly confiued to shallow water. In a tolerably large series 

 of specimens, the body of the largest (a male) measures only 12 mm. in length, and 

 several females bearing ova are even considerably less. 



Eupagurus sinuatus, Stimpson, from Port Jackson, has the hand of the right 

 chelipede armed with median and marginal series of spines, and the upper surface of 

 the dactylus with a median row of acute tubercles. In Eupagurus acantliolepis, 

 Stimpson, from the same locality, the median frontal projection is obsolete, the eye-stalks 

 exceed the antennal peduncles, and the hands of the chelipedes are spinulose. Pagurus 

 minutus, Hess, also from Port Jackson, is unrecognisable ; indeed, the short description 

 given of this species is not sufficient to identify even the genus. 



Habitat. — Station 161, off the entrance to Port Philip; depth, 33 fathoms; bottom, 

 sand. Several specimens inhabiting shells of Nassa pauper ata, Lam., Turritella sp., and 

 Natiea sp. 



Station 162, off East Moncoeur Island, Bass Strait; depth, 38 fathoms; bottom, 

 sand and shells. Many specimens, iu the following shells : — Nassa paiqjerata. Lam., 

 Turritella lamellosa, Watson, Turritella runcinata, Watson, Turritella cordismci, 

 Watson, Murex cordismei, Watson, and Ehurna australis, Sow. One specimen from this 

 locality has a species of Peltogaster adhering to its abdomen. 



Station 163b, off Port Jackson ; depth, 35 fathoms ; bottom, hard ground. Several 

 specimens in shells of Ancilla ohlonga. Sow., Nassa pauperata, Lam., Turritella 

 sinuata, Eeeve, Pleurofoma sp., and Natiea sp. 



Eupagurus inibescens (Kroyer), var. kroyeri, Stimpson. 



Pagurus pubesceiis, Kroyer, Conspect. Crust. Groeiil., Naturh. Tidsskr., ii., p. 251, 1839 ; in 

 Gaimard, Voyages en Scandinavia, pi. ii. fig. 1, 1849. 

 ThompsoHi, Bell, Brit. Crust., p. 372, 1853. 

 „ „ White, Pop. Hist. Brit. Crust., p. 78, 1857. 



Eupagurus puhcscens, Stimpson, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., p. 75, 1858. 



„ ,, Henderson, Crust. Decap. Firth of Clyde, p. 26, 1886; Proc. Roy. 



Phys. Soc. Edin., vol. ix. part i. p. 71, 1886. 

 var. Eupagurm kroyeri, Stimpson, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., p. 75, 1858 ; Ann. Lye. Nat. 



Hist. New York, vol. vii. p. 89, 1859. 



Habitat. — Station 49, south of Halifax, Nova Scotia ; depth, 85 fathoms ; bottom, 

 gravel, stones. Two small specimens in shells of Natiea affinis, Gmel. 



Eupagurus pubescens is one of the commonest North Atlantic Pagurids found in 

 moderately deep water, the variety usually occurring in a state of commensalism with a 

 species of Epizoanthus. It is recorded by Stimpson from the North Pacific. 



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