218 Ifotes on North American Crustacea. 



ing generall}'^ one or two more spiniform teeth on the antero- 

 lateral margin. It has been received from the following addi- 

 tional localities, viz. : Cape St. Lucas, J. Xantus ; Panama, 

 E,ev. J. Rowell ; Peru, C. H. Paymond. 



Eriphia liispida, nov. sp. 



Body and feet everywhere covered above with short, stiff, black setae, 

 mostly arising from tubercles. Carapax rather flattened above, indis- 

 tinctly areolated, rugose with low tubercles, from the front edges of 

 which the setae arise. Antero-lateral margin with about eight small 

 teeth mostly armed with one or two denticles near their tips. Front 

 broad, short-spinous ; spines numerous, small, with obtuse tips. Orbit 

 removed from the antennse to a much greater distance than is usual in 

 the genus ; — its margin spinous, especially beneath, where there is a 

 deep open fissure or hiatus !i*»i- the external angle. Meros-joint of 

 external maxillipeds with a slight sinus or emargination of its anterior 

 margin near the summit, corresponding to the efferent aperture ; ischium 

 denticulated on its inner margin. Chelipeds unequal ; hands tuber- 

 culated and granulated on both sides, the granules often crowding upon 

 the tubercles; fingers in smaller hand spoon-excavated. Ambulatory 

 feet short and stout, mostly smooth beneath the hispid covering; 

 meros crenulated above ; dactyle very short. Color purplish beneath 

 the black setae. Length of carapax in a female, 1.Y2; breadth, 2.35 

 inch. 



Found on the west coast of Central America, by Captain 

 J. JVl. Dow. 



Domccia hispida. 



Domecia hispida Soul., Voy. au Pole sud, pi. vi., f 3, Y. 



We have specimens, found at St. Thomas by Mr. i\iise, 

 which are of this species, or of one so closely allied, that the 

 published figures do not enable us to distinguish it. 



