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squamiform tubercles, the posterior margins of which are fringed with 
very short hairs. A single tooth upon the posterior margin of the 
lateral spines of the abdomen. Internal antenne short. Anterior 
legs very large, short, with two very strong conical teeth above, one 
upon the second joint, and the other upon the lower margin of the 
arm; following legs granulous above. Colour brown red, irregularly 
spotted with yellow. (M. E.). 
New Zealand? Cape of Good Hope (Edwards). 
81. Palinurus edwardsii. 
Palinurus edwardsii, Hutton, Trans. New Zeal. Inst. p. 279, (1875). 
Male.—Carapace beaked, armed with spines and large oval depressed 
tubercles, separated by rows of short hairs. Beak small, compressed, 
curved upwards, and with two small spines at its base. Spines on 
each side of the beak compressed and smooth. Abdomen transversely 
suleated, and covered with flat tubercles, each segment with a row of 
short hairs on its posterior margin. A single tooth on the posterior 
margin of the lateral lobes of the abdominal segments. Anterior legs 
with a strong spme on the inferior margin of the second and third 
joints, none on the penultimate joint. The superior margin of the 
distal extremity of the third joint of the last four pairs of legs armed 
with two spines, a smaller one in front of the larger. Colour dark 
brownish-purple ; abdomen the same, marbled with yellow; legs and 
caudal appendages reddish-orange, more or less marbled with purple. 
Female.—Has a spine on the inferior margin of the distal extremity 
of the penultimate joint of the last pair of legs. Length 94in. (H.). 
New Zealand (Coll. Brit. Mus.); Otago Heads (Mus. Wellington). 
Common. 
Differs from P. lalandii in its much smaller size, in the shape of 
the beak, in having no spine on the penultimate joint of the anterior 
legs, and in having a second small spine at the distal extremity of the 
third joint of the last four pairs of legs. 
Found also at the island of St. Paul, in the Indian Ocean. The 
specimens from New Zealand, in the Collection of the British Museum, 
that have been referred to P. lalanddii, belong to this species; and hence 
I amin doubt whether P. lalundii be also an inhabitant of the New 
Zealand Seas. It was formerly considered a common New Zealand 
species. 
We nnn. entatca- 4 Ab-donirt Seine, 
