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keep them all in Gholus, especially as, throughout the whole 

 of the group, structural characters are not correlated with 

 the general appearance. 



Cholus moestus. 



C. oblongo-ovatus, depressus, subnitide niger, denudatus, elytris 

 macula basali utrinque fasciaque pone medium, ad suturam in- 

 terrupta, ex squaraulis pallide flavis confertis ornatis. Long. 

 7 lin. 



Ha.h. Sarajacu. 



Oblong-ovate, depressed, black, slightly glossy, glabrous, 

 a spot at the base near the shoulder and a slightly oblique 

 narrow band, not meeting its fellow at the suture, composed 

 of pale yellowish minute scales ; rostrum glossy black, elon- 

 gate, dilated and finely punctured towards the apex ; antennge 

 ferruginous, basal joint of the funicle twice as long as the 

 two next together, the rest cylindrical ; prothorax transverse, 

 very minutely punctured, a few small glossy spots dotting 

 the duller black; scutellura suboblong, smooth; elytra slightly 

 broader than the shoulders at the base, abruptly contracted 

 near the apex, seriate-punctate, punctures small, distinct ; 

 body beneath and legs with small scattered setulas and round 

 imbedded scales, the legs ferruginous ; femora slender. 



A glabrous, depressed, and somewhat isolated species ; the 

 elytra abruptly contracted towards the apex cause a gibbosity 

 above the contracted portion, which is very marked, although 

 noticeable in many species. 



VII. — On a synall Collection of Crustacea and Pycnogonida 

 from Franz-Josef Land^ collected hy B. Leigh Smithy Esq. 

 By Edward J. Mieks, F.L.S., F.Z.S., Assistant in the 

 Zoological Department, British Museum. 

 [Plate YII.] 



The Crustacea which form the subject of the present memoir 

 were all collected by Mr. Leigh Smith in a single locality a 

 little to the south of Franz- Josef Land, in lat. 79° 55' N., 

 long, about 51° E., during his recent expedition to the Arctic 

 seas in his yacht ' Eira,' and have been generously presented 

 by him, with other animals collected in the same ci-uise, to 

 the British Museum. Mr. W. Grant, who accompanied him 

 as naturalist, undertook the care and preservation of the 

 specimens. 



The collection, although not numerous in species, is of con- 

 siderable interest, in that it contains two Araphipoda which 

 are apparently new to science, and a Pycnogonid which is 



