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the east coast of the United States. The Tozeuma serratum of A. Milne-Edwards, from 

 the West Indies, is probably, as Bate has remarked, referable to some other genus, for 

 in it the carpus of the second legs is multiarticulate. 



Genus E;HYNCHocinetes, Milne-Edwards. 



257. Rhynchocinetes eugulosus, Stimpson. 



R. ruyrdosus, Stimpson, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. Jan. 18G0, p. 36. 



Tuticorin, four specimens [Thurston). 



The body is marked dorsally by fine transverse or somewhat concentric impressed 



y-)-2 + 2 . 3+ 2 + 2 



striae. The rostral formula in three specimens is — ^ — , and in the fourth — g — , the 



first three upper teeth being situated ou the carapace ; whereas according to Stimpson 

 the rostrum is tridentate above near the apex, and has tw^elve teeth below. These 

 differences may be due to local variation, or possibly the Tuticorin examples are refer- 

 able to a distinct and new species, but I do not venture to separate them. A few 

 spinules are present on the meral joints of the last three pairs of legs, and the first pair 

 have a spine at the upper distal end of both the merus and the carpus, while the latter 

 joint is carinated superiorly along its entire length. The apex of the telson is acuminate, 

 and carries two pairs of subterminal spinules, of which the inner pair exceed the terminal 

 portion of the telson, and are about three times the length of the outer pair. 

 Distribution. Port Jackson [Stimpson). 



Genus Pontonia, Latreille. 



258. Pontonia tkidacnae, Dana. 



P. tridacnae, Dana, Crust. U.S. Explor. Expcd. pt. i. p. 571, pi. xxxvii. lig. 1 (1852). 



(= Conchodytes tridacnae, Peters). 



Tuticorin [Thurston); Rameswaram, in the mantle-chamber of a large Pinna 

 [J.B.H.). 



Bistrihutlon. Pted Sea [Rilgendorf) ; E. Africa [Peters, Rilgendorf) ; N. and N.E. 

 Australia [Mlers); Samoa (Dana, Ortiuaiui) ; Pijis [Miers). 



Genus Leander, Desmarest. 



This genus was founded by E. Desmarest in 18 i9 (Ann. Soc. Ent. de Prance, ser. 2 

 t. vii. p. 91), but poorly characterized, most stress being laid on the gibbosity of the 

 abdomen ; indeed, the characters furnished by this writer might apply to either tlie fresh- 

 water or the marine forms. He, however, figures as the type an undoubted marine form, 

 Jj. eiraticus, Desm. [=L. natator, Milne-Edw. fide Spence Bate). Stimpson, in 1860, 

 was the first to separate Leander and Pulcemoii, and to properly characterize them, 

 plcxcing the marine species in Leander and the fluviatile species in Paltsmon^ an 

 arrangement which has been followed by most subsequent writers. Spence Bate, in 

 his Report on the ' Challenger ' Macrura, partially reverses this arrangement and refers 

 the marine species to Palcemon, partly because he regarded Desmarest's diagnosis as 

 valueless, and because Leach, Milne-Edwards, Bell, and others had termed the common 



