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  CRUSTACEA. 
  

  

  E. 
  J. 
  MIERS. 
  

  

  The 
  Crustacea 
  collected 
  by 
  Dr. 
  R. 
  Coppinger 
  on 
  the 
  north-western, 
  

   northern, 
  and 
  north-eastern 
  coasts 
  of 
  Australia 
  are 
  very 
  numerous 
  ; 
  

   and 
  are 
  interesting 
  not 
  only 
  on 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  large 
  number 
  of 
  new 
  

   or 
  rare 
  species 
  obtained, 
  but 
  also 
  on 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  careful 
  manner 
  

   in 
  which 
  in 
  nearly 
  every 
  instance 
  the 
  nature 
  of 
  the 
  sea-bottom 
  and 
  

   depth 
  of 
  water 
  &c. 
  was 
  recorded. 
  

  

  Until 
  the 
  publication 
  of 
  Mr. 
  W. 
  A. 
  Haswell's 
  comprehensive 
  work 
  

   on 
  the 
  Podophthalmious 
  and 
  Edriophthalmious 
  Crustacea 
  of 
  Aus- 
  

   tralia 
  *, 
  but 
  few 
  systematists 
  had 
  dealt 
  specially 
  with 
  this 
  depart- 
  

   ment 
  of 
  the 
  fauna 
  of 
  this 
  district. 
  

  

  To 
  the 
  Australian 
  species 
  enumerated 
  by 
  Milne-Edwards 
  in 
  his 
  

   great 
  workf, 
  numerous 
  additions 
  were, 
  however, 
  made 
  by 
  Prof. 
  J. 
  

   D. 
  Dana 
  in 
  the 
  Eeport 
  on 
  the 
  Crustacea 
  collected 
  by 
  the 
  United 
  

   States 
  Exploring 
  Expedition 
  under 
  Commodore 
  Wilkes 
  J, 
  these 
  

   being, 
  with 
  few 
  exceptions, 
  from 
  the 
  coast 
  of 
  New 
  South 
  Wales. 
  

  

  In 
  1856 
  Dr. 
  J. 
  R. 
  Kinahan 
  § 
  published 
  an 
  account 
  of 
  a 
  small 
  

   collection 
  of 
  marine 
  Decapoda 
  collected 
  by 
  himself 
  at 
  Port 
  Phillip, 
  

   Victoria 
  ; 
  and 
  in 
  1865 
  Dr. 
  Hess 
  || 
  gave 
  a 
  systematic 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  

   then 
  known 
  species 
  of 
  Decapoda 
  of 
  Eastern 
  Australia, 
  based 
  upon 
  

   the 
  work 
  of 
  previous 
  authors 
  and 
  a 
  collection 
  from 
  Sydney 
  in 
  the 
  

   Museum 
  of 
  Gottingen. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  same 
  year 
  appeared 
  the 
  Report 
  by 
  Prof. 
  Camil 
  Heller 
  on 
  

   the 
  Crustacea 
  collected 
  by 
  the 
  Austrian 
  frigate 
  ' 
  Novara'^f, 
  wherein 
  

   twenty-four 
  species 
  are 
  enumerated, 
  also 
  from 
  Sydney. 
  Reference 
  

   may 
  also 
  here 
  be 
  made 
  to 
  an 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  Astacidce 
  of 
  Aus- 
  

   tralia 
  (" 
  Ueberblick 
  der 
  neuhollandischen 
  Elusskrebse 
  ") 
  by 
  Dr. 
  von 
  

   Martens 
  **. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Haswell's 
  recently 
  published 
  and 
  very 
  useful 
  Catalogue, 
  

   which 
  was 
  not 
  received 
  until 
  this 
  Report 
  was 
  considerably 
  advanced, 
  

  

  * 
  ' 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Australian 
  Stalk- 
  and 
  Sessile-eyed 
  Crustacea.' 
  Sydney, 
  

   1882. 
  

  

  t 
  'Histoire 
  Naturelle 
  dcs 
  Crustac^s' 
  (1834-40). 
  

  

  I 
  United 
  States 
  Exploring 
  Expedition, 
  vols. 
  xiii. 
  &xiv., 
  Crustacea 
  (1852-53). 
  

   § 
  Journal 
  of 
  the 
  Royal 
  Dublin 
  Society, 
  vol. 
  i. 
  pt. 
  3, 
  p. 
  Ill 
  (1856). 
  

  

  II 
  Archiv 
  f. 
  Naturgeschichte, 
  xxxi. 
  p. 
  127 
  (1865). 
  

  

  ^ 
  ' 
  Reise 
  der 
  osterreichischeu 
  Fregatte 
  Novai-a,' 
  Crustaceen 
  (1865). 
  

   ** 
  Monatsbericht 
  der 
  Akad. 
  Wissensch. 
  Berlin, 
  p. 
  615 
  (1868). 
  

  

  