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the extremity, and shorter than the eyes ; flagella alternately 

 annulatcd with red and white. Anterior legs clothed with 

 short dense hairs ; wrist and hand spinulous ; wrist with a 

 series of larger spines on its upper inner margin ; larger 

 hand ovate, with the spinules arranged in two longitu- 

 dinal lines reaching to the base of the upper margin of 

 the fingers, and elsewhere scattered ; smaller hand with a 

 group of larger spinules in the centre of the upper surface of 

 the palm. Ambulatory legs hairy ; hairs more dense on the 

 tarsi, which are slender, longer than the penultimate joint. 

 Antepenultimate joint of legs of second pair with a series of 

 spinules on its upper surface. Colour (in dried specimen) 

 light pink, with here and there spots of a darker colour. 



Length of carapace about 1 inch. 



Hah. New Zealand. 



The abdomen is unfortunately destroyed in the only spe- 

 cimen I have seen. This, however, is evidently a much 

 larger species than E. novai-zealandi(G. From E. japonicus^ 

 Stimpson, this species differs in its longer, slender tarsi. 

 E. acanfholepis of the same author has the wrist canaliculate 

 above. E. conslans lias a prominent rostral tooth. In none 

 of these species is mention made of the two series of spinules 

 u})on the palm. 



Gehia Danaiy n. sp. B.M, 



Gelna hirtifrons, Dana, U. S. Expl. Exp. xiii. Crust, i. p. 511, pi. xxxii. 



fig. 2 (1852), nee White. 



Scabrous surface of front part of carapace not reaching more 

 than halfway to dorsal suture, and the points mostly in six 

 nearly longitudinal lines. Hand with the outer surface smooth, 

 no spinules or denticulations, and few hairs on the upper 

 margin, on lower margin small denticulations, and rather 

 hairy ; lower finger slender and somewhat incurved ; caudal 

 segment not broader than long. Flagella of inner antennae 

 a little shorter than the last joint of base. Outer antennjB 

 about as long as abdomen. A spine at lower apex of carpus. 



Length nearly 2 inches. 



Hah. New Zealand, Bay of Islands [Dana] ; south side of 

 Davis Straits {coll. Brit. Mus.). 



I have given above Dana's description of the species he 

 refers to G. hirtifrons, White. A specimen in the British- 

 Museum collection agrees well with it. The front is strongly 

 3-lobed, the lobes triangular, acute, the middle one the longest. 

 The immobile finger is large ; the palm high and compressed. 



In the typical specimen of G. hirtifrons in the British 

 Museum the front is triangular, hairy, aud scabrous^ hardly, 



