8TUDIKS IN Al STKAUAN CRUSTACEA McOULLOCH, 34] 



Paguristes barbatus, Henderson, "Challenger" Kept., Zoo), 

 icxvii., 1886, p. 78. Id., Orttnatin, Zool. Jahrb., vi., L892, 

 1>. 279, pi. xii., iig. 7. 



Henderson was the first to indicate that Clibanarius barbatus, 

 Heller, was really a Paguristes when lie compared it with his 

 1'. subpilosus, but Ortmann has since described Japanese speci- 

 mens, which he identities as Heller's species, and gives his 

 reasons for placing it in Paguristes. 



Heller's type was said to have been taken at Auckland, New 

 Zealand, while Miers identified specimens in the British Museum 

 as C. barbatus from the same locality. Thomson, however, states 

 that these are the only records of its occurrence in New Zealand, 

 and that it has not heen again collected there; as many of the 

 " Novara " localities were incorrect, and as but little reliance 

 can be placed on Miers' identification, it may be that P. barbatus 

 is not a New Zealand species. 



I have shown (ante) that the specimens from New South 

 Wales, which were identified by Whitelegge and Stead as P. bar- 

 batus, are not that species, hut P. squamosus. Lucas 15 recorded 

 a specimen of Heller's species from Port Phillip, Victoria, but 

 the late Mr. F. E. Grant, according to his notes, believed that it 

 was really P. sulcatus, Baker. If this is correct, as I think 

 probable, the true P. barbatus has not yet been recognised from 

 Australia. 



Paguristes pugil, sp. nov. 



(Fig. 50). 



Paguristes, sp., Whitelegge, Proc. Roy. Soc. N. S. Wales, xxiii., 

 1889, p. 232, sp. 361. 



Frontal region hollowed out as in P. squamosus. Sides of 

 carapace hairy, upper parts with scattered tufts. Rostrum 

 elongate triangular, projecting well beyond the antero-lateral 

 angles, each of which forms a minute spinule ; the interspaces 

 between them and the rostrum are excavated and have thick 

 raised edges. Eye-stalks slender, their length equal to the width 

 of the carapace, a trifle longer than the antennular peduncles. 

 Ophthalmic scales large, bi-or trifid at tip. Basal portion of 

 antennal acicle with 2-3 external and 1-2 internal spinules ; 

 anterior portion styliform, tomentose, with several strong spines 

 on their inner and outer borders, reaching to the anterior third 



16 Lucas— Proo. Roy. Soc. Vict., xxii., 1886, p. 62. 



