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maxillipeds not concealed. Anterior legs large, and capable of being 
applied closely to the body, hands compressed, with a high dorsal 
ridge, Ambulatory. legs slender and of moderate length, tarsi styli- 
form, Abdomen of ¢ five to seven-jointed. 
61. Calappa hepatica. 
Cancer hepaticus, Linn, Syst. Nat. p. 1048, (1766). 
Calappa tuberculata, Fab. Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 345, (1798); Herbst, 
Krabben u. Krebse i, pl. xiii, fig. 78, (1796); M. Edw. Hist Nat. 
Crust. 11, p. 106, (1837). 
Carapace tubercular, and granulous above, with about a dozen tri- 
angular, very distinct teeth upon the antero-lateral margin ; and four 
wide, flat, acute teeth upon the front margin of the clypeiform wings 
of the carapace, which are very large. Posterior margin of the cara- 
pace entire, outer surface of the hands tubercular, but without BpHIcE. 
Length nearly 2 in.; breadth 8} in. (M. E.). 
Auckland (Heller). 
This species is found on the shores of various groups of islands in 
the Pacific, on the coasts of Australia, and at the Mauritius. 
In the very large series of specimens of this species in the Collection 
of the British Museum, there are almost invariably ten teeth on the 
antero-lateral margins. 
Family II. LEUCOSIIDA. 
Leucosiens, M. Edw. Hist. Nat. Crust. ii, p, 118, (1837). 
Leucoside, Dana, U.S. Explor. Exped. xiii, Crust. part i, p. 390, 
(1852). 
Afferent canal to the branchie entering at the antero-lateral angle of 
the palate. Genital appendages of the male exserted from the sternum. 
Terminal joints of the external maxillipeds concealed by the preceding. 
Legs gressorial, 
PHLYXIA. 
Phlyzxia, Bell, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxi, p. 803, (1855); Cat. Leucosiade 
in Brit. Mus, p. 18, (1855). 
‘Carapace rhomboidal, with three tubercles behind. Orbits emargin- 
ate above, with two fissures. Antennary fossee communicating with 
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