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to P. nove-zealandiw. However, the species in this genus are 
distinguished by such minute points that I do not feel prepared 
to unite P. schawinslandi definitely with P. nova-zealandie 
without comparison of authentic specimens of both species. 
Except for their larger size I can find little or nothing in 
the specimens described above to distinguish them from the 
smaller specimens found in mussel shells between tide marks 
at Dunedin, Lyttelton, ete., which on the authority of Heller and 
Miers I have hitherto referred to P. pisum Linn. These 
specimens appear to agree closely with the description of P. 
pisum given by Bell?; in them the eyes are pigmented while in 
the larger specimens dredged at varying depths the eyes (in the 
spirit specimens) seem to be always without pigment, but I can 
find no other difference of any importance and the general shape 
of the carapace, chele, external maxillipeds, etc., seems to be 
closely the same in all the specimens. _ 
EBALIA LAEVIS (Bell). 
Phlyxia levis Bell, Trans. Linn. Soe. xxi., 1855, p. 305, pl. xxxiv., 
ina 
Miers, Cat. N.Z. Crust., 1876, p. 56. 
Ebalia levis Chilton, Trans. N.Z. Inst., xxxviii., 1906, p. 266. 
One very small specimen from the Chatham Islands appears to 
belong to this species but it is too immature for certain 
determination. The species is common in New Zealand seas. 
ANOMURA. 
PETROCHELES SPINOSUS Miers. 
Petrocheles spinosus Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4), xvii, 
1876, p. 222, and. Cat. N.Z. Crust., 1876,p. 61, pla, hemes 
G. M. Thomson, Trans. N.Z. Inst., xxxi., 1898, p. 192. 
Two specimens from Station 12 and two (females with eggs) 
from Station 44, all more or less imperfect. 
This species, as Mr. G. M. Thomson points out, occurs in 
many parts of New Zealand, though it is not very often met with 
and no addition has been made to the description given in 1876 
by Miers, which was drawn up from a single much injured 
specimen in the British Museum. 
The following description may be therefore useful :— 
(2) Bell, British Stalk-eyed Crustacea, 1853, p. 121. 
