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Gen. Paralomis White. 



1856. Paralomis, White, Pr. Zool. Soc. Lord. vol. xxiv. p. 134. 



1858. Paralomis, Stimpson, Pr. Ac. Philad. p. 231 (Prodrornus, 

 p. 69). 



1871. Lithodes, Cunningham, Tr. Linn. Soc. Lond. vol. xxvii. 

 p. 494. 



1881. Paralomis, Miers, Pr. Zool. Soc. Lond. p. 71. 



1888. Paralomis, Henderson, 'Challenger' Anoinura, Reports, 

 vol. xxvii. p. 44. 



1892. Paralomis, Ortmann, Zool. Jahrb. vol. vi. p. 321. 



1893. Paralomis, Stebbiug, Hist. Crust., Internat. Sci. Ser. 

 vol. kxiv. p. 154. 



1894. Eekinocerus, Benedict, Pr. PT.S. Xat. Mus. vol. xvii. p. 484. 



1895. Paralomis, Bouvier, Ann. Sci. Xat. ser. 7, vol. xviii. p. 185. 



1895. Paralomis, Paxon, Mem. Mus. Coinp. Zool. Harvard Coll. 

 vol. xviii. p. 44 (Crust. ' Albatross '). 



1896. Paralomis, Bouvier, Ann. Sci. Xat. ser. S, vol. i. p. 25. 

 1899. Paralomis, Alcock & Anderson, Ann. Mag. Xat. Hist. 



ser. 7, vol. hi. p. 15. 



This genus was established by White for the species named 

 Lithodes granulosa by Jacquinot in the Atlas of the ' Voy. au Pole 

 Sud.' It is strange that White should establish a genus, without 

 any serious attempt at definition, on a figure which be pronounces 

 to be " extremely bad." Pie does not explain how under the 

 circumstances he was able to identify the specimen " in the British 

 Museum'' with the species in question. His observations that the 

 species " has the beak scarcely projecting at all beyond the extra- 

 orbital angle," that " the carapace and upper parts of its legs are 

 thickly invested, as in some of the Canceridte, with close straw- 

 berrv-surfaced granules, closely pressed together," and that it is a 

 small species, " more allied to Lomis," are all the help he gives for 

 distinguishing his new genus from Lithodes, not to speak of his own 

 genera Eehidnocerus and Pctalocervs. 



Two or three years later Stimpson gave distinguishing cha- 

 racters for ten genera of Lithodidte, in two groups. The second, 

 with the body depressed, comprised Lomis of Milne-Edwards 

 with Brandt's Dermaturus and Hapalogasler. Of these genera, 

 Bouvier in 1894 gives reasons for removing Lomis entirely from 

 the Lithodinea and founding upon it a separate section, the Lomis- 

 inea (answering to the Lomina suggested by Brandt in 1851) ; 

 but the other two he retains with Placetron Schalfeew, 1892, as con- 

 stituting one division of the Lithodinea, the Hapalogastrica of 

 Brandt. Benedict's CEdignatkusvs made a synonym of Dermaturus 

 aud his Lepeopus of Placetron, de Haan's Lomis dentata falling 

 into the genus Hapalogaster as arranged by Stimpson. The latter 

 author's first group, with body convex, comprised Lithodes, Eehid- 

 nocerus, Paralomis, RMnolithodes, Acantholithus, Phylloliihodes, and 

 Cryptoliihodes, the tirst established by Latreille, the next two by 

 White, Acaathvlithus by Stimpson, and the remainder by Brandt, 



