Thomson.— 0;i Neiu Zealand Crustacea Auomura. 175 



Size : Length of body, 62-77 mm. ; length of carapace 

 alone, 13-14 mm. ; length of ocular peduncles, 7-8 mm. ; 

 length of right chelipede, 45-60 mm. ; length of left chelipede, 

 28-37 mm.; length of 3rd leg, 40-65 mm. The last measure- 

 ment is' taken from a rather large specimen from Stewart 

 Island. Miers gives the length as from l|-in. to 2 in., which 

 is a common enough size for shallow-water specimens ; but 

 Filhol is wrong when he makes use of relative size as a 

 distinction between this species and his E. edwardsi. Many 

 of my Dunedin specimens do not exceed about 20 mm. in 

 length. 



Distribution^ — New Zealand and Falkland Islands. 



Habitat. — This species appears to be common in both 

 Islands. Dana found it in the Bay of Islands, and Heller at 

 Auckland. I have numerous specimens from Wellington (Sir 

 James Hector), Otago Harbour, and Stewart Island, where 

 Filhol also obtained it. 



2, Eupagurus kirkii, Filhol. Plate XX., figs. 8-10. 



1885. Eupagurus kirkii, Filhol, Miss, de I'ile Campbell, 

 p. 416, pi. h., fig. 5. 



Front of carapace produced on the median line into an 

 acute short rostrum ; angular projections on each side hardly 

 defined. Back of carapace almost quite glabrous. 



Ocular peduncles slender, about as long as the width of 

 the carapace in front ; basal scale produced into a small 

 nearly naked tooth on the inner margm. 



Antennules with the peduncle one-fourth shorter than the 

 ocular peduncles. 



Antennae with the peduncle scarcely longer than the 

 ocular peduncle ; outer spine of basal joint reaching to half 

 the length of, and acicle as long as or slightly exceeding, the 

 ocular peduncles ; flagellum scarcely as long as right cheli- 

 pede. 



Ghelipedes very unequal, more or less covered with fine 

 scattered hairs. 



Right chelipede with meros compressed, its upper margin 

 slightly ridged but smooth, its upper distal edge furnished 

 with a short spine and a few fringing hairs, below it is 

 broadened and excavated to receive the next joint, its outer 

 and inner lower margins spinose ; carpos rather rounded 

 above and broadening distally, its inner upper margin spinose, 

 with numerous short spines scattered over the rather pubes- 

 cent upper surface ; propodos quite glabrous on its outer face, 

 which is thickly covered with conical tubercles, upper margin 

 somewhat thin and crest-like, two rather prominent tubercu- 

 lar ridges are on the outer face, while the lower margin forms 



