224 Zoological Society. 



from a living specimen ; but even the dried individual in the Museum 

 collection is very distinctly marked. 



Family PaguridvE. 

 Pagurus strigimanus, White. 



Red, irregularly spotted with yellow. Eye-peduncles longish, not 

 the length of the anterior margin of the carapace. Carapace with 

 the front part irregularly pitted above, very smooth in the middle, 

 the sides with tufts of long yellow hairs. First pair of legs not much 

 thickened ; on the outside covered with thickly-set tubercles, many 

 of which end in a spine ; the base of these tubercles in front furnished 

 with a tuft of longish yellow hairs ; inside of the hand and of the move- 

 able claw with several slightly raised patches, covered with regular 

 parallel deepish grooves ; the claws black, and slightly hollowed at 

 the end ; the second and third legs with the two last joints furnished 

 with many small black spines and tufts of long yellowish hairs. 



Hab. Van Diemen's Land. From Mr. Gunn's collection. 



A species somewhat allied to Pagurus guttatus, Oliv. 



Pagurus comptus. White. 



Whitish, the antennae ringed with red ; the legs with three or four 

 broad red bands. Carapace smooth, with a few punctures on the 

 side, between which and the middle is an impressed somewhat curved 

 line ; the front edge with a very wide tooth in the middle. 



First pair of legs irregular ; the left hand much smaller than the 

 other ; the palmar portion of the larger hand somewhat flattened on 

 the outside, and covered with small depressed warts ; the claws short 

 and thick, the edges of the claws sharp ; the second and thiid pairs 

 of legs thin, smooth, slightly punctured with a few short bristles ; 

 the fourth and fifth legs very smooth. 



Hab. Falkland Islands (Antarctic expedition). 



Pagurus cavipes. White, List of Specimens of Crustacea in Brit. 

 Mus. p. 60. 



Eye-peduncles short and thick ; eye very large ; scale at the base 

 large and serrated at the end. Carapace with two widish teeth in 

 the front edge, between the outer antennae and eyes ; a transverse 

 groove near the front edge, the anterior angle with a few short 

 spines ; anterior legs with the left the larger ; the wrist tubercled ; 

 the hand behind the moveable claw tubercled ; the outer edge of the 

 moveable claw and lower edge of hand serrato- dentate; outside of 

 hand smooth, inside with a few tufts of shortish hairs ; the smaller 

 claw with several rows of hairs in tufts. The second and third pairs, 

 of legs somewhat serrated on the upper edge ; the third leg on the 

 left side with the penultimate joint longitudinally grooved on the 

 outside ; the next joint angled and somewhat excavated above, near 

 the upper edge, which is sharpish and somewhat serrated. 



Hab. Bramble Key, Australia. Presented by J. B. Jukes, Esq. 



