268 The Malacostraca of Durban Bay 
88 mm. in breadth. The colour ‘deep rose with white dots in patches 
over carapace” was retained after a prolonged voyage to England. 
The pleon in shape agrees with that figured by Adams & White, the 
third to the fifth segments being completely fused, though bands of 
white dots are suggestive of non-existent sutures. The left cheliped 
is rather the larger and much the darker. In each the margin of the 
thumb forms four obtuse tubercles with an innermost small fifth. 
The tips of the otherwise black fingers are white. The terminal joints 
of the ambulatory limbs have a dark felt and black nails. “* Front 
slightly projecting, deeply notched in the middle line.” 
A small specimen from the same locality has a carapace 12 mm. 
long, 18 mm. broad. 
Trine CATOMETOPA. 
Famity GONEPLACIDA. 
Genus EUCRATE, de Haan. 
1835. Cancer (Hucrate), de Haan, Crust. Japon., decas secunda, pp. 
36, 51. 
1858. Pilumnoplax (part), Stimpson, Pr. Ac. Philad., vol. x, p. 93 
(39). 
1882. KHucraie, Haswell, Catal. Austr. Crust., p. 86 (Pr. Linn. Soc. 
N:S. W., vol: vi): 
1884. Psewdorhombila, Miers (not Milne Edw.), ‘ Alert” Crust., pp. 
240, 242. 
1888. Huwerate, de Man, J. Linn. Soc. London, vol. xxii, 88. 
Haswell says, ‘‘Abdonien of the male five-jointed.” But de Man 
states that in Haswell’s Hucrate affinis ‘the male abdomen is seven- 
jointed,” and this agrees with Stimpson’s “articulis totis distinctis ” 
for the male abdomen in Pilumnoplax. Possibly the distinction of 
the median segments is variable either in fact or appearance. 
EUcCRATE SULCATIFRONS (Stimpson). 
1858. Pilumnoplax sulcatifrons, Stimpson, Pr. Ac. Philad., vol. x, 
p. 93 (39). 
1884. Pseudorhombila sulcatifrons, var. australiensis, Miers, “Alert” 
Crust., p. 242, pl. 24, figs. C, ¢. 
