132 



16. Ramphocelus sanguinolentus. 



Ta7iagra {Tachyphonus) sanguinolentus, Less. Cent. Zool. p. 107. 

 pi. 39. 



Tachyphonus sanguinolentus, Gray, Gen. p. 365. 

 Ramphocelus sanguinolentus, Bp. Consp. p. 242. 

 Velutino-ater : pileopostico,nuchacum cervice laterali et pectore 

 conjunctis necnon tectricibus subalaribus et uropygio crissocjtie 

 coccitieis .• rastro albo : pedibus nigris. ? nuiri similis, sed 

 coloribus obscuribus. 

 Long. totą /"S, alse 37, caudse 3"3. 



Hab. South Mexico, Valle Real {Deppein Mus. Berol.); Cordova 

 (Sallč) ; Coban (Delattre, in INIus. Derb.) ; Hondūras, CamalacaB 

 river, near Truxillo (Dyson). 

 Mus. Brit., Derbiano. 



3. SOME REMARKS ON CrUSTACEA OF THE GENUS LiTHODES, 



WITH A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF A SpECIES APPARENTLY 



aiTHERTO UNRECORDED. Bj AdAM WhITE. 



(Annulosa, PI. XLII.) 



Having laid before the Society a description of the interesting Li- 

 thodes ( Echid7iocerus) cibarius, of which a very excellent figure is 

 published iu the Proccedhigs for 1848, drawn by the late W. Wing, 

 F. L. S., I conceive that a brief account of anothcr very curious 

 Lithodes, of which a notice was given at a meeting of the Linnean 

 Society, may not be without interest to some of the members. 



The group Lithodes, founded by Latreille upon our well-known, 

 though not very commou, spine-covered, empty-bodied Lithodes 

 Maia, bcgms now to become better kuown. Of the excellent figure 

 of this type of the genus, published by Dr. Leach in bis ' Malacostraca 

 Britannica,' it is sufficient to say that it was drawn and engraved by 

 the late James Sowerby, F. L. S., and coloured from bis pattern. 



A very young specimen, proeured by R. ISPAndre^v, Esq., F.R.S., 

 during his late Norwegian cruise, shows that in the young statė the 

 asperities are rather sharper, and the carapace is decidedly longer in 

 comparison with its breadth, than in the adult statė ; the arrested 

 development of the pieces forming the tail is characteristic in the 

 adult as it is in the young specimen, 1 inch long, dredged by Mr. 

 Barrett, and presented by Mr. M''Andrew to the Museum. 



Seba (vol. iii. pi. 22. f. 1) has figured a specimen with longer and 

 more divergent terminai horns to the rostrum. As a bad specimen 

 exists of this variety in the Paris Museum, Prof. Milne-Edwards 

 fancies, and with good reason too, that it may prove a distinct species ; 

 he has provisionally named it Lithode douteuse (Crust. ii. 186); 

 at all events, it is a Aariety which research may find in this coimtry, 

 for different specimens differ in their degrees of divergence in the 

 horns of the rostrum. 



Haan, in his 'Fauna Japonica,' 217. t. 47, has figured the malė 



