262 — Mr. E. J. Miers on Crustacea from 
dilated distally. Chelipedes (in the specimens examined) sub- 
equal, of moderate length ; arm very short, little exceeding its 
vertical depth in length; carpus small; hands compressed, 
with short hairs and with subseriately-arranged tubercles on 
their outer surface ; fingers thin, sharp-edged, denticulated, 
and nearly meeting along their inner margins; second legs 
small, third and fourth legs thick, with the third to fifth 
joimts very robust, and the claws small; fifth legs entirely 
wanting. Colour (in spirit) light yellowish brown; legs 
more or less densely clothed with a short pubescence. Length 
of the largest example (a male) nearly 4 lmes (8 millim.), 
breadth a little over 6 lines (13 millim.). 
Two smaller examples are in the collection—one a male, 
the other apparently an immature female. 
This formis apparently sonearly allied to Amorphopus of Bell* 
that I am not sure whether it ought to be generically separated 
from it. In Amorphopus, however, the carapace 1s described 
as cylindrical, the inferior orbital margin is wholly wanting ; 
the chelipedes are unequal, the fingers in the larger hand 
meeting only at the tips, and the fifth legs are represented by 
a minute tubercle inserted in a little notch at the base of the 
first joint of the fourth pair. Of this I find no trace in 7. 
anomalipes. 
The locality of Bell’s type, Amorphopus cylindraceus, is not 
stated. : 
Hexapus seapes (Fabr.), as described and illustrated by De 
Haan, in v. Siebold}, resembles this species in general shape 
and in having only three pairs of ambulatory legs, without a 
rudiment of a fourth; the species, however, is of minute size, 
the carapace somewhat broader behind, the outer maxillipedes 
with the ischium or second joint broad and transverse, merus 
quadrate (as shown in the figure), truncated at its distal end, 
with the next joint articulated with it at its antero-internal 
angle ; the second legs are shorter, whereas in 7. anomalipes 
they are longer and more robust than the rest. 
Gelasimus tangiert (yg.). 
Gelasimus tangrert, Eydoux, Magas. de Zoologie, vii. pl. xvii. (1835) ; 
M.-Edw. Ann. Sci. Nat. (ser. 8) Zool. xviii. p. 151, pl. iv. fig. 21 
(1852) ; Heller, Crust. des stidl. Europa’s, p. 101 (1863) ; Kingsley, 
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. p. 153 (1880). 
* Journ. Linn. Soe., Zool. iii. p. 27 (1859). 
ae Japonica, Crust. pp. 35, 63, pl. xi. fig. 5, and pl. D. fig, 
