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recorded from Japan by De Haan, Dr. Stimpson, and myself; it is also one 

 of the British species known to occur in the Australian Seas, specimens 

 having been taken in Bass's Straits, E. Moncseur Island, 38 fathoms, by 

 H.M.S. ' Challenger.' 1 3) Portunus pusillus, Leach. (4) Pilumnus hir- 

 tellus ; Herm, near Guernsey. (5) Ebalia tuberosa, 'Pennant : a male and 

 female of full size were obtained, in which the coloration is excellently 

 preserved ; the ambulatory limbs are very prettily spotted with red, and the 

 abdomen of the female has six spots symmetrically disposed in two longi- 

 tudinal series of the same colour. (6) Corystes cassivelamiiis ; Guernsey. 

 7, ,. (7) Eupagurm herulardus (L.). (8) E.prideauxii (Leach). (9) Spiropagurus 



Anapagurus) hyndmanni (Thompson): Mr. J. R. Henderson, in working 

 out the Anomourous Crustacea of the ' Challenger' collections, first observed 

 that Pagurus \Eupagurus) hyndmanni, Thompson, P. Iwvis, Thompson, and 

 P.ferrugineus, Norman (= P. chrysacanthiis, Lilljeb.), presented a character 

 5 /;^ akin to ipi^opagurus in the curved genital appendage attached to the coxal 

 "7 ' joint of the fifth (left) leg, which appendage, however, is not spirally coiled 

 as in spinopagurus, and he established therefore for these species a new 

 1"' subgenus, Anapagurus. (Of the genus Spiiiojjagurus the described species 

 are S. spiriger (De Haan) from Japan; 8. dispar, Stimpson, from the Bar- 

 badoes ; S. iris, M.-Edwards, from the Barbadoes ; and 8. elegans, Miers, 

 from Goree Island, Senegambia). (10) Galathea strigosa, L. (11) G. inter- 

 media, Lilljeborg (= G. andreivsii, Kinahan) : of this distinctly characterized 

 little species there are specimens in the collection of the Natural History ,; 

 Museum from Dalkey Sound (Dr. Kinahan); Cumbrae; Benhaven ; Balnesia -^'y 

 (the Museum of Stockholm) ; Kenmare River, Ireland (Sir P. Egerton) ; and 

 Vigo Bay, Portugal (W. S. Kent). (1^) Callianassa subterranea (Montagu). 

 (13) Athanas nitescens (Montagu). (14) Alpheus megacheles, Hailstone (a 

 specimen in spirit, and a fine dried specimen from Herm) (15) Idotea 

 /''■ '^' lunaris (Pennant). — Edward J. Miers. 



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HOLOTHUEIOIDEA. 



The Trepang Fishery. — An important fishery for a food product, 

 although one scarcely known in Europe or the United States, is that 

 carried on for Trepangs in the South Pacific and Indian Oceans, where it 

 is found chiefly on coral reefs, from which it is gathered and imported in 

 large quantities into China, where it is considered a great culinary delicacy. 

 The Trepang is found in all latitudes, but hitherto the supply has come 

 mainly from the islands of Oceaiiica, particularly New Caledonia. In 

 Malaysia, the Ladrones, and the China Sea, thousands of junks are 

 equipped annually for these fisheries. The island of Erromanga, in the 

 New Hebrides, has long been an important shipping point for this product. 

 The Trepang, or Beche-de-Mer, as it is often called, — another of its names 

 being the Sea-cucumber, — is a rather repulsive looking animal, being a kind 



