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•vvith a tuft of longish yello\v hairs ; inside of the hand and of the move- 

 able cla\v with several slightly raised patches, covered with regular 

 parallel deepish grooves ; the claws black, and slightly hollowed at 

 the end ; the second and third legs \vith the two lašt joints furnished 

 with many small black spines and tufts of long yellovvish hairs. 



Hab. Van Diemen's Land. From Mr. Gunn's coUection. 



A species somevvhat allied to Pagurus guttatus, Oliv. 



Pagurus comptus, White. 



WhitiRh, the antennse ringed with red ; the legs with three or four 

 broad red bands. Carapace smooth, \vith a few punctures on the 

 side, between \vhich and the middle is an impressed some\vhat curved 

 line ; the front edge with a very wide tooth in the middle. 



First pair of legs irregular ; the left hand much smaller than the 

 other ; the palmar portion of the larger hand somevvhat flattened on 

 the outside, and covered with small depressed warts ; the claws short 

 and thick, the edges of the claws sharp ; the second and third pairs 

 of legs thin, smooth, slightly punctured with a few short bristles ; 

 the fourth and fifth legs very smooth. 



Hab. Falkland Islands (Antarctic expedition). 



Pagurus cavipes, White, List of Specimens of Crustacea in Brit. 

 Mus. p. 60. 



Eye-peduncles short and thick ; eye very large ; scale at the base 

 large and serrated at the end. Carapace with two widish teeth in 

 the front edge, between the outer antennse and eyes ; a transverse 

 groove near the front edge, the anterior angle vvith a fevv short 

 spines ; anterior legs vvith the left the larger ; the vvrist tuhercled ; 

 the hand behind the raoveable claw tubercled ; the outer edge of the 

 moveable clavv and lower edge of hand serrato-dentate ; outside of 

 band smooth, inside vvith a fevv tufts of shortish hairs ; the smaller 

 clavv vvith several rovvs of hairs in tufts. The second and third pairs 

 of legs somevvhat serrated on the upper edge ; the third leg on the 

 left side ■vvith the penultimate joint longitudinally grooved on the 

 outside ; the next joint angled and somevvhat excavated above, near 

 the upper edge, vvhich is sharpish and somevvhat serrated. 



Hab. Bramble Key, Australia. Presented by J. B. Jukes, Esq. 



Family Thalassinid^. 

 Gebia hirtifrons, White. 



Beak above depressed, vvith six or seven longitudinal rows of smaU 

 tubercles, furnished at the tip vvith tufts of hairs ; stomachal region 

 smooth ; falše natatory appendage large and ciliated. 



Hab. South Seas (Antarctic expedition). 



The only specimen vvhich I have seen appears to be very young, 

 as the crust seems hardly formed. It is closely allied to the Gebia 

 stellata. 



