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scarcely any interniarginal hiatus. The ambulatory legs are defi- 

 cient except one fifth leg, which has the joints except the last 

 compressed and bordered with long hairs ; the upper margin of the 

 inerus is acute and obscurely crenulated ; dactyl hairy, styliform, 

 and short, with a small terminal claw. Colour (in spirit) light yel- 

 lowish white. Length of carapace 3| lines (6| milliin.), breadth 

 4| lines (about 9| millim.). 



The single female in the collection was obtained at Thursday 

 Island, 4-5 fms. (No. 165). 



There is also a female in the Museum collection obtained near 

 Java (H.2I.S. ' Samarang '). 



As I have examined no male specimens of this curious species, and 

 am ignorant of the position of the male verges, I do not venture to 

 remove it from the vicinity of Pilumnus, in which genus it is re- 

 tained by Mr. Haswell. There is, I thiuk, no doubt of the specific 

 identity of our example with the specimen figured in the ' Catalogue 

 of Australian Crustacea,' though whether this be identical with the 

 P.fimbriatus of M.-Edwards remains somewhat uncertain, on account 

 of the brevity of the diagnosis of the latter author. This species 

 certainly cannot be retained in Pilumnus as at present restricted ; 

 and I am inclined to think it should be removed from the Cancroidea 

 to the Grapsoidea. I am, however, unable at present to indicate 

 its exact affinities. 



Mr. Haswell records it from Port Molle. 



64. Pilumnopeus serratifrons (Kinahari). 



Two specimens are in the collection from Port Jackson (No. 104). 



The British Museum contains 'specimens from Port Jackson 

 (Cuming), Port Phillip, Victoria (Dr. J. 11. Kinahan), and the Austra- 

 lian seas, no definite locality, (Stutchbury) ; also from ]S T ew Zealand. 



In my ' Catalogue of the New -Zealand Crustacea,' p. 21 (1876), 

 I have already pointed out the possible identity of Pilumnopeus 

 crassimanus, A. M.-Edwards, with P. serratifrons. I believe Mr. 

 Haswell is right in regarding lleteropanope australiensis, Stimpson, 

 as also synonymous with this species (Cat. p. 70). 



65. Ozius guttatus, var. speciosus. 



Ozius speciosus, Hilgenchrf, in Van der Decken's Reisen in Ost-Afriha, 

 iii. p. 74, pi. ii. fig. 1 (1660). 



An adult female is in the collection from Flinders Island, North- 

 east Australia. Mr. Haswell records it from Port Denison and Port 

 Curtis. 



To the same variety, as I think it must be designated, belongs an 

 adult female in the British-Museum collection from Mauritius (Lady 

 Frances Cole). 



In the typical form of Ozius guttatus, as described and figured by 

 Prof. Alph. Milne-Edwards in his Report on the Crustacean Fauna 



