42 Capt. F. W. Hutton on new Species of Crustacea. 
pentagonal mark in the centre, the apex prolonged to the 
front, which it divides. Area on each side of the mouth below 
with moniliform transverse striz. Arms trigonal, striated on 
the outside; hands smooth outside, and with a few scattered 
granules inside; fingers smooth, Legs with the third joint 
very broad, compressed, acute above, and armed with a single 
tooth at the apex, smooth; outer joints and claws tomentose. 
Length °67 inch ; ratio of length to breadth 1: 1:27. 
A single specimen in the Colonial Museum, Wellington, 
locality not stated. 
Palinurus Edwardsit. 
Male. Carapace beaked, armed with spines and large oval 
depressed tubercles separated by rows of short hairs. Beak 
small, compressed, curved upward, and with two small spines 
at its base; spines on each side of the beak compressed and 
smooth. Abdomen transversely sulcated, and covered with 
flat tubercles, each segment with a row of short hairs on its 
posterior margin; a single tooth on the posterior margin of 
the lateral lobes of the abdominal segments. Anterior legs 
with a strong spine on the inferior margin of the second and 
third joints, none on the penultimate jomt; the superior 
margin of the distal extremity of the third joint of the last 
four pairs of legs armed with two spines, a smaller one in 
front of the larger. Length from beak to end of telson 
9°5 inches. 
Colour. Carapace and antenne dark brownish purple; 
abdomen the same, marbled with yellow; legs and caudal 
appendages reddish orange, more or less marked with purple. 
In the female the beak is wanting, and there is a spine on 
the inferior margin of the distal extremity of the penultimate 
joint of the last pair of legs, making it subchelate. 
Locality. Otago Heads, common. 
This species differs from P. Lalandii in its much smaller 
size, in the shape of the beak (which is straight and conical 
in P. Lalandit), in having no spine on the penultimate joint 
of the anterior legs, and in having a second small spine at the 
distal extremity of the third joint of the last four pairs of 
legs. I have named it in honour of M. Alphonse Milne- 
Edwards, who has done so much to increase our knowledge 
of New-Zealand carcinology. 
