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Gay in his ' Chili ' mentions it (iii. 182) as a native of Chili. 



The Lithodes granulosa, Honibron and Jacquinot, ' Voy. au Pole 

 Sud,' pi. 8. f. 15, has the beak scarcely projecting at all beyond the 

 extra-orbital angle, the carapace and upper parts of its legs are 

 thickly invested, as in some of the Cancerid(e, with olose strawberry- 

 surfaced granules, closely pressed together. It is a small species, 

 evidently very distinct from Lithodes and more allied to Lotnis — it 

 may be called Paralomis granulosa. We have it in the British 

 Museum. The figure in the ' Voyage au Pole Sud,' is estremely 

 bad, not at all giving correctly the surface of the carapace and legs, 

 which are closely matted with the vvarts. 



Messrs. Edwards and Liicas have published the description of a 

 fine species, said to come from the Southern Pacific, in the Archives 

 du Museum, ii. 46.5. pi. 24-27, and given ample details of it. It 

 is named, from its short legs, Lithodes brevipes ; its beak is short. 

 I n the British Museum we have a specimen. 



The Lithodes verrucosa, Dana (pi. 26. f. 16. vol. i. pi. 428), was 

 found by that able and active naturalist in Fuegia. The carapace 

 is verrucose throughout. 



The Lomis hirta of M. Edwards, founded on the Porcelianą hirta 

 of Laraarck (Anim. s. vert. v. 229), is an interesting generic form, 

 to which Lichtenstein, in one of his catalogues, had applied the 

 name Thylacurus. De Haan, who quotes this, has figured a second 

 species in his 'Fauna Japonica' (219. t. 48. f. 2. & t. Q), under 

 the name Lomis dentata : — " totą tomentosa, setis brevibus densis ; 

 thoracis margine medio 8-spinoso, pedibus secundis, tertiis et quartis 

 margine antico 15-spinosis, spinis cristam subcontinuam formanti- 

 bus." 



Lomis hirta is abundant on the coast of Tasmania. 



Lithodes (Petalocerus) Bellianus. (PI. XLII.) 



The first feature of the curious crab here figured is the straw- 

 berry-like surface of its carapace, and of the bhmt spines with which 

 its legs are covered ; the next feature is the subequilateral triangular 

 figure of that carapace ; this part is produced above the eyes into a 

 notched projection, wdth two slight promineuces down the middle ; 

 this covers up the front part of the head, and conceals a wart-covered 

 spine above the base of the pedicels of the eye, which pedicels are 

 spiny above. The carapace has 3 spines on each side, and 2 tuber- 

 cles ; the first spine is directed forwards, and has one or two indi- 

 stinct spinelets at its base, the second and third are separated from 

 the first by a considerable sinus, and are near each other ; tliey are 

 directed laterally, but slightly inclined forwards likę the other two, 

 and indeed likę the whole of the carapace and the spines on the legs ; 

 they are covered with the close wartiug so characteristic of this 

 species ; the two tubercles on the lateral border, but at its end are 

 . united at the base ; the anterior is the larger ; the hind part of cara- 

 pace is straight, bending round tovvards these tubercles and thick- 

 ened on the edges, one of its monticuli being conneeted with the 

 hindmost lateral tubercle ; the stomach, genital, and cardiac regions 



