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and historian of Drake's famous voyage of circumnavigation, up to the 

 present day. In Willey's Zoological Results, part V., p. 590, Mr. L. A. Borradaile 

 has given a list of the principal observations that have been published. 



It is to Willey and Borradaile also that we owe the knowledge that the 

 young of Bir^tis leaves the egg as an (aquatic) zoaea resembling other known 

 Pagurine zoaeas. 



I. BiRGus LATKo, L. Plate XVI. 



Cancer cfuvienatus, Rumph, Amboinsch. Rariteitk., 1705, p. 7, pi. iv. 



Canctr crumenatus onentalts, Seba., Thesaur., Ill,, 1761, pi. xxi. fig. i. 2. 



Cancer lalro, Linn., Syst. Nat. (ed. 12) II., 1767, p. 1049: Herbst, Krabben, 11., ii., 1791, 

 p. 34, pi. xxiv. 



Pagurus latro, Fabr., Ent. Syst. Suppl., 1798, p. 411 : Bosc, Hist. Nat. Crust., II., 1802, p. 76 : 

 Latreille, Hist. Nat. Crust.. VI., 1803, p. 164: Olivier, Encycl. Method VIII., 1811, p. 639: 

 Lamarck, Hist. Anim. sans Vert., V., 1818, p. 221 ; Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. Uranie, 1824, p. 534, 

 pi. Ixxx. 



Birgiis latro, Leach, Trans. Linn. Soc, XI., 1815, p. 337: Desmarest, Diet. Sci. Nat., 

 XXVI II., 1823, p. 289; and Consid. Gen. Crust., 1825, p. 180, pi. xx.x. fig. 3: Gu^rin, Icon. 

 R. A. (2 ed.) Crust, pi. xvi. fig. 1 : Owen, P. Z. S., 1832, p. 17 ; Milne Edwards, Hist. Nat. 

 Crust., II., 1837, p. 246; and in Cuvier, R. A. (3 ed.) Crust., pi. xliii. fig. 1: De Haan, 

 Faun. Japon. Crust., 1849, p. 212 : Dana, U. S. Expl. Exp., Crust., pt. I., 1852, p. 474, pi. xxx. 

 fig. 5: Hilgendorf in v. d. Decken's Reisen Ost-Afr., III. i. 1869, p. 100: Brocchi, 

 Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. (6) II., 1875, Art. 2, p, 39, pi. xv. fig. 44 (male orifice): Suhm, 

 Zeits. wiss. Zool., XXVI., 1875, p. 73 : Streets, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., VII., 1877, p. 118: 

 Semper, Zeits. wiss. Zool., XXX., 1878, p. 282: Grube JB. Schles. Ges., 1878, p. 76; 

 Guppy, P. L. S., N. S. Wales, VII., 1882, p. 661: Lucas, Ann. Soc. Ent. France (6) III., 

 1883(2'= part), p. .xxxix : Miers, Zool. "Alert," 1884, p. 555: Bourne, P. Z. S., 1886, p. 333: 

 Henderson, Challenger Anomura, 1888, p. 50 : de Man, Arch. f. Nat., LIII., i.(1887), 1888. p. 453 ; 

 and Abh. Senckenb. Ges., 1902, p. 751 : Ortmann, Zool. Jahrb., Syst., 1891-92, p. 319; and in 

 Bronn's Thier Reich, Malacostraca, p. 1235' T. R. R. Stebbing, Hist. Crust., 1893 p. 156: 

 Whitelegge, Mem. Austral. Mus., III., 1897, p. 140 : Borradaile, P. Z. S., 1898, p. 458; and 1899, 

 p. 937 ; and Stomatop. and Macrura of Willey's Exp., 1899, pp, 397, 426 ; and 1900, pp. 585- 

 590 (ubi lit.) : Andrews, Monograph of Christmas I., 1900, p. 164 : Nobili, Ann. Mus. Genov. 

 (2) XX., 1899, pp. 248, 496. 



Birgus laticauda (Latreille) Desmarest, Diet. Sci. Nat., XXVIII., 1823, p. 290 ; and Consid. 

 Gen, Crust., 1825, p. 180 {Pagurus laticauda, Latreille, Cuvier R. A., IV., pi. 12, fig. 2). 



Carapace transversely scored and ru,s;ose with the edges of the ridges 

 burred with very short bristles. Rostrum stout, acute, often surpassing the 

 eyes. 



Eyestalks not, or little, surpassing the penultimate joint of the antenna! 

 peduncle : the latter peduncle not very much longer than the basal joint of 

 the antennular peduncle. 



