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Haan, from the Japanese seas*, but differs from his description 

 and figure, and from a Japanese specimen in the Museum collec- 

 tion, in the following characters: — The carapace is somewhat more 

 depressed, and granulated only toward the sides, the gastric and 

 cardiac regions being smooth ; the second and third legs are naked, 

 the merus-joints much slenderer and less compressed than in I), gra- 

 nulate,, and smooth, not granulated ; t lie folio wing joint is bicarinated 

 as in B. granulate, but the carinae are not granulated. In the 

 single male example of B. granulate I have seen, the palm of the 

 larger (right) chelipede is granulated on its outer surface, in D.aus- 

 trali nsis it is smooth. These observations and the figure < d) of the 

 chela are based on adult examples received from Dr. Bowerbank, as 

 the specimen received from Dr. Coppinger is very small and is, more- 

 over, a female. This species is also very nearly allied to D. astute, 

 Fabricius; but in specimens referred to the latter from the Indian 

 Ocean and the Philippines, in the Museum collection, the carapace is 

 smooth and narrower, the legs slender, and the carpus-joint in the 

 second and third pairs not longitudinally bicarinated. In D. sima, 

 M.-Edw., on the contrary, the second and third legs are much more 

 robust, and there is a strong spine at the inner suborbital angle, 

 which is wanting in the three species above mentioned. 



AXOMUBA. 

 1. Cryptodromia lateralis. 



PDromia lateralis, Gray, Zool. Miscell. p. 40 (1831). 



Dromia verrucosipes, finite, List Crust. Brit. Mm. p. 55 (1847). 



p. 139 (1882). 



A male from Port Jackson, 5-7 fms. (Xo. 104), is referred to this 

 species. Specimens from the same locality are in the British-Museum 

 collection (Antarctic Expedition and J. Brazier). Other Australian 

 localities indicated by specimens in the British Museum are : — 

 Kicol Bay (M. duBovJay); Brisbane ( Cuming); Tasmania (Cuming, 

 Bonald Gunn) ; Bass Straits (J. Macgillivray, H.M.S. ' Battlesnal. 

 Fremantle (Dr. Bowerbank); King George's Sound, West Australia 

 (F. 31. Ray ner, BZ.M.S. ' Herald ') ; also from Japan, Madjica- 

 Sima (H.M.S. 'Samarang'), Philippine Islands, Bohol (Cuming), 

 and Xew Zealand. 



This species is without doubt the Cryptodromia lateralis of 

 Heller ; and Dr. Gray's short diagnosis also agrees with our speci- 

 mens so far as it serves ; but he does not mention one of the most 

 salient characteristics of the species — the nodosities of the chelipedes 

 and ambulatory legs. In certain of the specimens, however, these 

 prominences are much less apparent, and the longitudinal carinas of 



* In Siebold, Fauna Japonica, Crust, p. 122, pi. xxxi fig. 2 (sima), 1841 



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