1B6 Transactions. — Zoology. 



the distal end. The propodos and dactylos are thickly covered 

 on the outside with conical protuberances, which on the basal 

 half are buried in thick hairs ; both fingers are quite naked on 

 the inside. 



x\mbulatory limbs long and very hairy, especially on the 

 margins of the joints. 



I cannot specify the colour of the species, all my spirit 

 specimens being of a uniform yellowish-brown colour. 



Size : Length of body, 70 mm. ; length of carapace alone, 

 21 mm. ; length of ocular peduncles, 10 mm. ; length of right 

 chelipede, 29 mm. ; length of left chelipede, 39 mm. ; length 

 of 3rd leg, 52 mm. 



Habitat.- -1 have received this species from Wellington 

 {Sir James Hector), from Lyttelton {Captain Hutton), and 

 from Cook Strait {Filliol). 



Filhol {I.e.) has figured this species on plate 49, figs. 5 to 7, 

 and at p. 490 briefly describes it under the name of Pagurus 

 setos'iis, as follows : "I thought at first of referring to Pagurzis 

 pilosus a species of Crustacean of which I had gathered two 

 specimens in Cook Strait. I have figured one of them some- 

 what enlarged, but further examination showed me that I was 

 wrong in the first instance, and that the form of Crustacean 

 which I had found was identical with a Pagurus, also occur- 

 ring in New Zealand, and figuring under the name of Pagurus 

 setosus in the collections of the Paris Museum. The descrip- 

 tion of this species, which appears to be rare, has never yet 

 been given. The outer antennae are long, and are covered on 

 their external margin with long and fine hairs. The upper 

 and outer margins of the hand present a series of large 

 tubercles. The feet are furnished on the anterior and pos- 

 terior margins of the difi"erent articulations with extremely 

 delicate long hairs. The specimen which I have figured is 

 magnified three times." 



Genus 5. Pagueistes, Dana. 



Front with the rostral projection prominent and often 

 acute. Ocular peduncles remarkably long and slender, the 

 ophthalmic scales of moderate size, and separated by a con- 

 siderable interval. Antennules long. Antennal acicle robust, 

 the flagellum usually short and ciliated. Chelipedes sub- 

 equal, or of equal size, the fingers moving in a horizontal 

 plane and calcareous or corneous at the tips. Penultimate 

 pair of legs not chelate. Abdomen of the male with the first 

 two segments bearing each a pair of appendages ; in the 

 female a single pair present on the first segment and a mem- 

 branous oviferous sac borne on the left side of the second, 

 third, and fourth segments. {Hend.) 



