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cinieiis from Rovig-iio, tlio carpus appears iii the siiiall ova-beariiig 

 foiiiak' and in foui' other young specimens sliorter than the chola, 

 in five just as long- as the chela and in one young individual, 

 nieasnring 84 mm., the carpus (Fig. 1;+), whicli is 6,5-tinies as hing 

 as thick at the distal extremity, appears even slightly longer than it, 

 a great exception, no doubt. In three of the 5 specimens from 

 Naples the carpus is slightly shortcr than the chela, in two both are 

 of equal length. Fingers a little more than half as long as the palm. 

 At ]). 126 an adult female, without eggs, from Denmark is 

 described; the 2'! legs of this female fully resemble those of the 

 ova-bearing female from the Bay of Sebastopol, the carpus being 

 slightly shorter than the chela; in this female the coalesced por- 

 tion of the shorter ranuis of the outer flagellum is longer than 

 the f ree part, so that this female agrees in both these characters 



8 + 2 

 with the variety ('f('(/(ins. The rostrnm, however, — - — dentate, is 



jiisf ((!> /oiif/ as th(! antcmnal scales and the l^t tooth is tirirc as 

 far distant from the posterior as from the anterior margin of the 

 carapace. 



It appears desirable to examine whetiier tlu' type species and the 

 two varieties perhaps also diflfer by the colour of living specimens. 



General distribution : Black Sea, lu^ar Hudagh and Cape Por- 

 thenion (Rathke), Odessa (Andrzeiowski); Mediterranean : Greece 

 (Guérin), Cyprus (Heller), Algiers (Lucas), Taranto (Costa), 

 Naples (Carus), Adriatic (Heller), South coast of Sardinia (Senna), 

 Spezzia and Viareggio (Targioxi Tozzetti), Nizza, Livorno, 

 Messina (Ortmann). 



Azores (Barrois); Madeira (Dana); Canaries (Brullé) ; St. 

 Vincent, Cape Yerde Islands (Ortmann, Stebbing). 



Whether the specimen, recorded by the Rev. Stebbing, (1. c), 

 from a salt lake or „Vlei" in False Bay, South Africa, should 

 also be referred to L. Sqidlla., appears somewhat doubtful, be- 

 cause two teeth of the rostrum are placed beliind the eyes and 

 because the telson bears three latero-dorsal pairs of niinute spines. 



