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Breadth of carapace of the largest female specimen 

 15 mm. 



Length of carapace (epistome included) of the largest 

 female specimen 13 mm. 



Breadth of carapace of the largest female specimen 

 13 mm. 



Nursia plicata Herbst. 



Herbst, Krabbe und Krebse, taf. LIX , fig. 2. Nursia 

 hardwickii Leach , Milne Edwards , Hist. Nat. Crust. Tome II, 

 pag. 137. Nursia plicata^ Bell, Monograph on the Leuco- 

 siidae, pag. 307 , taf. XXXIV, fig. 4. Nursia plicata? Miers, 

 On the Oxystomatous Crustacea , II Serie , Vol. I , part the 

 fifth, 1877, pag. 240, PI. XXXVIII, fig. 28. 



A single male specimen , collected near Amoy (China) 

 is in the collection. The anterior and especially the poste- 

 rior margins of the arms of the anterior legs are thin , 

 sharp-edged and granulated. Cancer plicatus is described 

 by Herbst as having the lateral margins of the arms : 

 »sharf erhöhet und gekörnt," so that there can be no doubt , 

 that Nursia hardwickii Leach , having the margins of the 

 arms also thin and sharp-edged , is identical with the species 

 of Herbst. 



Pagurus varipes Heller. 



Heller , Sitzungsber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin , Bd. XLIV , 

 pag. 244, Taf. I, fig. 1. Taf. II, fig. 2 und 2. 



As far as I am aware , this beautiful Pagurus was hitherto 

 found only in the Red Sea , where it seems to occur rather 

 frequently ; we received a fine specimen from the shores 

 of Djeddah and another from the Red Sea, presented by 

 Mr. Kossmann , both preserved in spirits. Now Mr. Semme- 

 link lately presented us with a very beautiful specimen (also 

 in spirits), which was collected on the shores of the island 

 of Banda-Neira (Molluccas), and wholly agrees with our 

 Djeddah specimen even as regards the colouration. It 



Notes from the Leyden lyTiiseuia , Vol. III. 



