62 STALK- AND SESSILE-EYED CRUSTACEA 
Carapace more or less elongated, and of softer consistency behind. 
Eyes pedunculate, not retractile, and directed forwards. External 
maxillipeds pediform, Abdomen usually soft, unsymmetrical, with 
unequal appendages. Anterior legs with a well developed hand. 
Fourth and fifth pairs of ambulatory legs short, raised above the rest, 
and usually didactyle. 
EUPAGURUS. 
Eupagurus, Brandt, in Middendorf’s Sibirische Reise, Zool. 1, p. 105, 
(1851). 
Bernhardus, Dana, U.S. Explor. Exped. xiii, Crust. part i, p. 440, 
(1852). 
Front acute in the middle. Opthalmic segment exposed, without a 
mobile scale. Hye peduncles of moderate size. External antenne 
with a long flagellum, the basal scale slender. External maxillipeds 
rather large, distant from one another at the base. Anterior legs 
unequal, the right the largest, fingers not spoon-excavate at the tips. 
Fourth pair of ambulatory legs scarcely subchelate. | Abdomen 
unsymmetrical, soft, without calcareous plates, 
67. Eupagurus cristatus. 
Pagurus cristatus, M. Edw. Ann, Sci. Nat. (ser. 2) vi, p. 269, 
(1836) ; Hist. Nat. Crust. 1, p. 218, (18387). 
Median tooth of the anterior margin of the carapace rather prominent. 
Anterior legs granulous or slightly spinous. Upper and lower margin 
of the wrist thin, having the shape of a denticulated crest. Hands 
slightly compressed, with one or two thin, prominent, more or less 
denticulated, longitudinal ridges, which are rather differently disposed 
on the two sides of the body, and in the two sexes. Ambulatory legs 
thin, compressed, and finely denticulated on their upper margin ; 
tarsus long, curved and compressed, but not twisted. Three false legs 
small, and with two lamelle, fixed to the abdomen, a very few hairs 
upon the legs. (M. E.). 
New Zealand (Quoy and Gaimard). 
This species, as appears from the description of M. Milne Edwards, 
is distinguished from Hu. nove-zealandie by the form of the wrist. 
I have seen no specimens agreeing with the description in this respect, 
the specimens referred to Hw. cristatus by White, in the List of 
