30 MR. E. J. MIERS ON CRUSTACEA FROM [Jan. 14, 



(for a species of this genus) ; the arm with a longitudinal line of 

 granules on its anterior and posterior margins and on its upper sur- 

 face; the wrist nearly smooth; the hand trigonous, smooth on its three 

 faces, with a line of small tubercles or granules on its outer and inner 

 margins ; of these about four on the outer margin are somewhat larger 

 and equidistant ; all the tubercles of the anterior legs are seen under 

 a lens to be themselves granulated ; the mobile finger has three or 

 four spines on its upper margin ; the ambulatory legs are very small 

 and compressed ; the margins of the merus-joints of the last two pairs 

 are granulated. Length about I inch, greatest breadth about -^^ inch. 



Oorean seas (no exact particulars regarding the locality). One 

 male individual collected. 



This species belongs to the same group as the L. lamellifrons. 

 Ad. & Wh., L. gracilis, Dana, and L. affinis, A. M.-Edw. From 

 the latter (of which there is a large series from the Javan and Indian 

 seas in the British-Museum collection) it differs in the much fewer 

 tubercles of the carapace and arms, which are less rounded, and from 

 the two former in the much greater breadth of the carapace behind 

 the orbits, and the absence of spines on the outer margin of the 

 hands, &c. 



Cyclometopa vel Cancroidea. 



Cancrid^. 

 act^a granulata. 



Cancer granulatus, Audouin, Explic. Planches, p. 87, de Savigny, 

 Egypte, Atlas, Crust, pi. tI. 6g. 2 (1809). 



Cancer savignyi, M.-Edw. Hist. Nat. Crust, i. p. 3/8 (1834). 



Actcea granulata, De Haan, Faun. Japon. Crust, p. 18 (1835); 

 A. M.-Edw. Nouv. Archiv. Mus. Hist. Nat. i. p. 275 (1865). 



1 ActcBa pura, Stimpson, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. p. 32 (1858). 



A small male example is in the collection without definite locality 

 attached. This species appears to be common in the Indo-Malayan, 

 Austrahan, and Japanese seas ; and its range extends to the Red Sea, 

 Mozambique, and the Mauritius. 



AcT^ODES TOMENTOsus, var. 



Zozymus tomentosus, M.-Edw. Hist. Nat. Crust, i. p. 385 (1834). 



ActcEodes tomentosus, Dana, Crust. U.S. Expl. Exp. xiii. (i.) p. 

 197 (1852). 



Actcea tomentosa, A. M.-Edw. N. A. Mus. H. N. i. p. 262 

 (1865). 



In this variety the carapace is very broad in proportion to its 

 length, the granules with which it is covered small and very nu- 

 merous, the anterior areolets scarcely, and the posterior (e. g. the 

 cardiac) not at all, distinguishable ; the colour is dull red. Length 

 rather more than \ inch, breadth ^ inch. 



Collected at the Goto Islands, at low-water mark. 



The two males and female collected, on account of the indistin- 

 guishability of the areolets, present a very different appearance both 



