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224 Zoological Society. 



from a living specimen ; but even the dried individual in the Museum 

 collection is very distinctly marked. 



Family Pagurid^. 

 Pagurus strigimanus, White. 



Red, irregularly spotted vs^ith yellow. Eye-peduncles longish, not 

 the length of the anterior margin of the carapace. Carapace v;ith 

 the front part irregularly pitted above, very smooth in the middle, 

 the sides with tufts of long yellow hairs. First pair of legs not much 

 thickened ; on the outside covered with thickly-set tubercles, many 

 of which end in a spine ; the base of these tubercles in front furnished 

 with a tuft of longish yellow hairs ; inside of the hand and of the move- 

 able claw with several slightly raised patches, covered with regular 

 parallel deepish grooves ; the claws black, and slightly hollowed at 

 the end ; the second and third legs with the two last joints furnished 

 with many small black spines and tufts of long yellowish hairs. 



Hab. Van Diemen's Land. From Mr. Gunn's collection. 



A species somewhat allied to Pagurus guttatus, Oliv. 



Pagurus comptus, White. 



Whitish, the antennae ringed with red ; the legs with three or four 

 broad red bands. Carapace smooth, with a few punctures on the 

 side, between which and the middle is an impressed somewhat curved 

 line ; the front edge with a very wide tooth in the middle. 



First pair of legs irregular ; the left hand much smaller than the 

 other ; the palmar portion of the larger hand somewhat flattened on 

 the outside, and covered with small depressed warts ; the claws short 

 and thick, the edges of the claws sharp ; the second and third pairs 

 of legs thin, smooth, slightly punctured with a few short bristles ; 

 the fourth and fifth legs very smooth. 



Hab. Falkland Islands (Antarctic expedition). 



Pagurus cavipes, White, List of Specimens of Crustacea in Brit. 

 Mus. p. 60. 



Eye-peduncles short and thick ; eye very large ; scale at the base 

 large and serrated at the end. Carapace with two widish teeth in 

 the front edge, between the outer antennae and eyes ; a transverse 

 groove near the front edge, the anterior angle with a few short 

 spines ; anterior legs with the left the larger ; the wrist tubercled ; 

 the hand behind the moveable claw tubercled ; the outer edge of the 

 moveable claw and lower edge of hand serra to -dentate; outside of 

 hand smooth, inside with a few tufts of shortish hairs ; the smaller 

 claw with several rows of hairs in tufts. The second and third pairs 

 of legs somewhat serrated on the upper edge ; the third leg on the 

 left side with the penultimate joint longitudinally grooved on the 

 outside ; the next joint angled and somewhat excavated above, near 

 the upper edge, which Is sharpish and somewhat serrated. 



Hab. Bramble Key, Australia. Presented by J. B. Jukes, Esq. 



