OF NEW ZEALAND. Oo 
Gaim. Voy. Uranie, p. 531, pl. Ixxix, fig. 1, (1824); M. Edw. Mist. 
Nat. Crust. i, p. 230, (1837). 
Aniculus typicus, Dana, U.S. Explor, Exped. xiii, Crust. part i, 
p-. 461, pl. xxix, fig. 1, (1852). 
Rostral tooth large and triangular, but little prominent. Ocular 
peduncles much narrowed towards the middle, and of the same length 
as the front margin of the carapace and the basal joimt of the internal 
antenne ; their basal scales very broad, triangular, and near to one 
another. Scale of the external antenne very short. Anterior legs 
short, robust, of nearly the same thickness, and marked with transverse 
strie, (which occupy their whole width, and are very distant from one 
another), and with small black spines and hairs towards the extremity ; 
fingers very short, with a very thick black nail. Legs of the two 
following pairs short, thick, rounded, slightly compressed, with trans- 
verse lines like the former; tarsi very short. Abdomen of the female 
with two large transverse horny plates above, which have the posterior 
margin lobate, the three first oviferous false legs large, terminating in 
two ciliate joints, with a large foliaceous plate near their base, which 
unites with a large lamellar tegumentary fold placed obliquely on the 
under side of the abdomen, and forms a very capacious oviferous pouch ; 
fourth false leg nearly rudimentary. Colour yellowish, washed with 
red, hairs yellow. Length 4in. (M. E.). 
Auckland (Heller). 
This species is found on the shores of various islands in the Pacific, 
and on the coast of Australia. Specimens are in the Collection of the 
British Museum. 
PAGURUS. 
Pagurus, M. Edw. (part) Hist. Nat. Crust. ii, p. 218, (1837); Dana, 
U.S. Explor. Exped. xiii, Crust part. i, p. 449, (1852). 
Front straight in the middle. Ophthalmic segment exposed, with a 
mobile scale. Hye peduncles stout, and usually constricted in the 
middle, with the basal scales broad. External antenne with the flagel- 
lum long, naked, the basal scale short. External maxillipeds approxi- 
mated at the base. Anterior legs unequal, the left the largest, fingers 
opening vertically, with corneous tips, more or less spoon-excavate. 
Ambulatory legs with the coxe approximated at the base, the fourth 
pair chelate. Abdomen soft, unsymmetrical, of the male without 
genital appendages, 
