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CEUSTACEA. 



E. J. MIEES. 



The Crustacea collected by Dr. E. Coppinger on the nortli--westem, 

 northern, and north-eastern coasts of Australia are very numerous ; 

 and are interesting not only on account of the large number of new 

 or rare species obtained, but also on account of the careful manner 

 in which in nearly every instance the nature of the sea-bottom and 

 depth of water &c. was recorded. 



Until the publication of Mr. W. A. HasweU's comprehensive work 

 on the Podophthalmious and Edriophthalmious Crustacea of Aus- 

 tralia *, but few systematists had dealt specially with this departs- 

 ment of the fauna of this district. 



To the Australian species enumerated by MUne-Edwards in his 

 great work f, numerous additions were, however, made by Prof. J. 

 D. Dana in the Eeport on the Crustacea collected by the United 

 States Exploring Expedition under Commodore Wilkes J, these 

 being, with few exceptions, from the coast of New South Wales. 



In 1856 Dr. J. R. Einahan § published an account of a small 

 collection of marine Decapoda collected by himself at Port Phillip, 

 Victoria ; and in 1865 Dr. Hess || gave a systematic account of the 

 then known species of Decapoda of Eastern Australia, based upon 

 the wprk of previous authors and a collection from Sydney in the 

 Museum of Gottingen. 



In the same year appeared the Eeport by Prof. Camil Heller on 

 the Crustacea collected by the Austrian frigate ' Novara'^, wherein 

 twenty-four species are enumerated, also from Sydney. Eeference 

 may also here be made to an account of the Astacidee of Aus-' 

 traia (" Ueberblick der neuhoUiindischen Flusskrebse ") by Dr, von 

 Martens **. 



Mr. HasweU's recently published and very useful Catalogue, 

 which was not received untU this Eeport was considerably advanced, 



* 'Catalogue of the Australian Stalk- and Sessile-eyed Crustacea.' Sydney, 

 1882. 

 t 'Histoire Naturelle des Orustacls' (1834-40). 



i United States Exploring Expedition, vols. xiii. &xiy., Crustacea (1852-53). 

 Journal of the Boyal Dublin Society, vol. i. pt. 3, p. Ill (1856])1 

 II Arohiv f. Naturgeschichte, xxxi. p. 127 (1865)i 

 ^ ' Eeise der bsterreiohischen Fregatte Novara,' Crustaceen (1865). 

 ** Monatsbericht der Akad. Wissensoh. Berlin, p. 615 (1868). 



