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Body depressed, with a slightly elevated centre, with the iriter- 

 ambulacral area rather more depressed, the ambulacral and inter- 

 ambulacral area nearly equal, the ambulacra not converging toge- 

 ther at the end. 



LIST of the ANNULOSE ANIMALS hitherto recorded as found 

 in NEW ZEALAND, with the Descriptions of some New 

 Species by Messrs. ADAM WHITE and EDWARD DOU- 

 BLED AY, Assistants in the Zoological Department of the 

 British Museum. 



Class CRUSTACEA. 



1. Paramithrax Gaimardii. M. Edwards. Hist. Nat. 



des Crust., i., p. 325. 

 Inhabits New Zealand. M. Edwards. 



2. Chlorodius eudorus. M. Edw., 1. c. i., p. 402. Cancer 



eudora. Herbst. iii., pi. 51, f. 3. 

 Inhabits New Zealand. M. Edwards. 



3. Portunus catharus. White, n. s. 



Inhabits New Zealand. Collection of the British Mu- 

 seum. Dr. Andrew Sinclair, R.N. 



This species comes near P. marmoreus, Leach (Malac. Pod. 

 Brit. Tab. viii., f. 1, 3), differing from the European species in 

 being wider, in having 4 teeth in front of the carapace, the inter- 

 mediate pair close together. There are 5 teeth on the sides of the 

 carapace, and 1 tooth on the outer part of the sinus over the eye. 

 The carapace is very smooth, has two impressed lines converging 

 behind, and widest in front. The colour of the carapace is brown- 

 ish yellow, spotted with minute brown dots ; the dots forming a 

 lunated line between the impressions on back the most distinct; 

 the penultimate joint of the tail the largest and narrowed in 

 front. Breadth of carapace of a male specimen, 1 inch 2 lines. 

 Length 10 lines. 



" Common Crab" Polack (New Zealand, i., p. 326) 

 speaks of this as inhabiting New Zealand. 



4. Grapsus strigilatus. White. In Gray's Zool. Misc., 



1842, p. 78. 



Inhabits New Zealand. Dr. Dieffenbach. 

 Carapace with the front part depressed, horizontal, and occupy- 



