72 ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS MADE DURING [Jan. 4, 



of 4 fathoms, amid rock and kelp, and another at Trinidad Channel. 

 Dana records it from Fuegia ; and Dr. Cunningham met with it in 

 great numbers at the Tyssen Islands, Falkland Sound, and in the 

 eastern portion of the Straits of Magellan. 



The rostrum terminates in a spine, behind and above which are 

 two smaller spines. 



In the Paralomis granulosus {Lithodes granulosus, Jacq. & Lucas) 

 the rostrum is described as very short, obliquely truncated, distinctly 

 curved downwards towards the base, and surmounted by three spini- 

 form tuberculated teeth ; in other respects it closely resembles this 

 species, and, like it, inhabits the Straits of Magellan. Has the 

 rostrum been broken off in the specimen described 1 



In a very young example from the Antarctic seas, in the British- 

 Museum collection, the granulated and wart-like turbereles of the 

 carapace are closely crowded together, so that none of the smooth 

 under surface is visible, and the spines of the legs are much smaller. 



EUPAGTJRUS COMPTTJS. 



Pagurus cojw^^ms. White, Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 122 (1847); id. 

 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (ser. 2) i. p. 224 (1848). 



Eupagurus comptus, Stimpson, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. p. 237 

 (1858); Miers, Zool. Erebus & Terr., Cr. p. .S, pi. ii. figs. 5, 5 a 

 (1874). 



Pagurus forceps, Cunningham, I. c. p. 495 (1871), nee Edwards. 



To this species I refer nine specimens collected by Dr. Coppinger 

 at Sandy Point in 7-10 fathoms, inhabiting shells of the genera 

 Euthria, Natica, and Trophon ; also a specimen collected at Cockle 

 Cove, on a muddy bottom, depth 2-32 fathoms ; one from Puerto 

 Bueno, at 4 fathoms ; four obtained at Portland Bay on a hard 

 sandy bottom, depth 10 fathoms ; and a young specimen obtained 

 at Port Rosario in 2-30 fathoms. These are the same species as 

 the individuals collected by Dr. Cunningham at Possession Bay and 

 Port Otway, in the Museum collection, and referred by him to P. 

 forceps. E. forceps, however, appears to be distinguished by the 

 much shorter, broader, larger hand, and the much shorter and less 

 slender fingers of the left anterior leg. White's typical specimen of 

 E. comptus was collected at the Falkland Islands. 



Two varieties occur of this species. The typical form is readily dis- 

 tinguished by the form of the hand of the right anterior leg, which 

 (with the fingers closed) is of an ovate shape, narrower distally, finely 

 granulated externally, with a prominent granulated ridge on the 

 upper surface of the palm, and the ridges on its outer surface very 

 indistinct ; the arm has a granulo-spinulous line on its upper margin ; 

 the smaller hand is somewhat trigonous, with the fingers scarcely 

 longer than the palm ; and the second and third legs are annulated with 

 red. To it belong, besides White's typical specimen, the one collected 

 by Dr. Coppinger at Puerto Bueno and one of those obtained by 

 Dr. Cunningham at Possession Bay. In the other, and apparently 

 commoner variety, the larger hand is shorter, of a much more oblong- 

 OTfate form, the granulous ridges on the outer surface of the palm 



