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ing more than half its breadth in front, measuring from spine to 

 spine ; lateral margins in front with three teeth ; many strice on 

 the sides ; hands large, swollen ; sides very smooth ; upper edge 

 with a few wart-like excrescences. Colour : sides of carapace 

 red, slightly mottled with yellow ; in front and on the back black, 

 with large yellow marks ; legs reddish, tinged with blue. 

 A species in form, &c. agreeing with G. varius. 



5. Cyclograpsus sexdentutus. M. Edw., 1. c. ii., p. 79. 

 Inhabits New Zealand. M. Edw. 



6. Plagusia clavimana. Latr. Desm. Consid., p. 127- 



M. Edw., 1. c. ii., p. 92. " Cancer planissimus. 

 Herbst. pi. 59, fig. 3." Var. PI. serripes. Lam. 

 Seba, t. iii., pi. 19, fig. 21. 



Inhabits New Zealand. M. Edw. British Museum. 

 Dr. Sinclair, R.N. 



7. Leucosia 1 ? orbiculus. Cancer orbiculus. Fabr. Ent. 



Syst. 402, 13. 

 Inhabits New Zealand. Fabr. 



8. Pagurus cristatus. M. Edw., 1. c. ii., p. 218. Edw., 



Ann. des Sc. Nat., ser. 2, vi., p. 269. 

 Inhabits New Zealand. M. Edw. Brit. Museum Dr. 

 Sinclair. 



9. Pagurus pilosus. M. Edw., 1. c. ii., p. 233. Ann. Sc. 



Nat., vi., p. 282, pi. 14, f. 1. 

 Inhabits New Zealand. M. Edw. 



10. Porcellana elongata. M. Edw., 1. c. ii., p. 251. 

 Inhabits New Zealand. M. Edw. 



11. Palinurus ? sp. " Lobster, or Sea Cray-fish." Cook. 



" Cancer homarus, L." Forster, Voy., i. p. 144. 



" Kohuda, or cray-fish," Kohura. Dieffenbach. 



Polack, i. p. 326. 



" The highest luxury which the sea afforded us was the lobster, 

 or sea cray-fish, which are probably the same that, in the account 

 of Lord Anson's Voyage, are said to have been found at the island 

 of Juan Fernandez, except that, although large, they are not quite 

 equal in size. They differ from ours in England in several par- 

 ticulars : they have a greater number of prickles on their backs, 

 and they are red when first taken out of the water. These we 



