OF NEW ZEALAND. HA 
Carapace with a strong transverse furrow, and two longitudinal 
furrows behind it ; sides thorny, with many short spines projecting 
forward. Beak reaching beyond the peduncle of the inner antenne, 
broad, flattened, and rather hollowed out above, with four teeth on its 
sides, and two teeth at the sides of the base; a slight median ridge 
behind, which extends to the anterior of the two spines at the sides of 
the base of the beak. Basal scales of the external antenne extending 
slightly beyond the thickened basal joint, and with a strong spine close to 
their base. The first two joints of the arms, (anterior legs), with two 
rows of spines inside, wrists spined all round, hands spined on the 
sides and below, and a central row of spines outside, outside covered 
with distant, long, stiff hairs, the tips of which are often split, hands 
longer than the fingers, which are spinous on the outer edge. Legs 
slender. Olivaceous brown, reddish on the centre of the carapace, 
and first and second abdominal rings below paler, tinted with green 
round the base of the legs and on the abdominal rings. Spines and 
tubercles of the hands and fingers black, with yellow tips, spines on 
the carapace black. Length 52 in. (H.). 
New Zealand (Coll. Brit. Mus.) ; near Invercargill, Otago, and R. 
Avon, near Christchurch, Canterbury (Hutton). 
This species is at once distinguished by the numerous spines on the 
sides of the carapace. The specimen in the Collection of the British 
Museum bears the name of ‘“ P. horridus, 8.” in, I think, Dr. Semper’s 
handwriting, but I cannot discover that this name has ever been 
published. 
: Ya Cavl 
79. Paranephrops zealandicus. ( pre) a) 
Astacus zealandicus, White, Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 123, (1847); Ann. 
Mag. Nat. Hist. (ser. 2) 1, p. 225, (1848). 
Paranephrops zelandicus, Miers, Zool. Erebus and Terror, Crust. 
p- 4, pl. u, fig. 2, (1874). 
Carapace smoothish, beak as long as the peduncle of the outer 
antenne, wide, depressed, with a slight keel near the base, the edges 
thickened, and with five or six small denticulations. Hands somewhat 
compressed, the outer and inner edges spined, the spines of the inner 
edge the longer, the hand with many longitudinal rows of hairs in 
tufts, wrist with three spines on the inner edge, and a deepish groove 
above, the caudal plates all of a crustaceous substance, the upper side 
