CRUSTACEA NOKIH PACIFIC EXPLORING EXPEDITION 1 53 



Crust., II. p. 126. De Haax. Fauna Japonica, Crust., p. 134, pi. xxxiii 

 fig. I. 



Our specimens agree much better with De Haan's figures than 

 Avith those of Mihie Edwards in the ihustrations to the recent edition 

 of Cuvier's "Regrie Animal." In the young female the abdomen is 

 scarcely wider than in the male. The color in life is pale brick red 

 above, clouded with bluish ; below whitish. 



It is common on mud and shelly-mud in five to twelve fathoms, in 

 Hongkong- Harbor ; also taken in twenty-five fathoms, sand, in the 

 China Sea, near latitude 23° N. 



250. MYRA AFFINIS' Bell 



Myra aMitis Bei.i., Lin. Trans., xxi, 296. 



A young female specimen referable to this species is found among 

 our collections, in which, however, the surface is but little granu- 

 lated, as in M. fugax. to which it is very closely allied. Rut the 

 teeth at the posterior extremity of the carapax are obtuse, and the 

 middle one is short (perhaps worn). 



The specimen in life was of a dusky brick-red color above ; sides 

 and feet paler and variegated with white ; beneath white. 



It was dredged from a shelly bottom in twenty fathoms, in Kago- 

 sima Ba}', Japan. 



Cxenus PHILYRA Leach 



251. PHILYRA TUBERCULOSA Stimpson 



Plate XVIII. Fig. 5 



P.'iilvra titbcrciiliisa Stimpson, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., x, p. 159 

 "[58]. 1858. 



Description of a female: Carapax convex, broadly rhomboidal, 

 almost orbicular, but longer than broad; proportion, i: 1.05. Out- 

 line angular. Surface uneven. Branchial, postero-gastric, genital, 

 and cardiac regions protuberant and closely tuberculated. Margins 

 granulated. Posterior margin transverse. Front concave, smooth, 

 shorter than the epistome. Hepatic or pterygostomian angle promi- 

 nent, its ridges granulated. Outer maxillipeds somewhat rugose, 

 and ornamented wdth a ciliated line parallel to the inner margin. 

 Chelipeds short : meros strongly granulated, except at the middle 



^ Pcrs(-pho)ia oMiiis (Bell). 



