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Haan, from the Japanese seas*, but differs from his description 

 and figure, and from a Japanese specimea in the Museum collee- 

 tion, in the following characters: — The carapace is somewhat more 

 depressed, and granulated only toward the sides, the gastric and 

 cardiac regions being smooth; the second and third legs are naked, 

 the merus-joints much slenderer and less compressed than in D. gra- 

 nulata, and smooth, not granulated ; the following joint is bicarinated 

 as in -D. granulata, but the carinas are not granulated. In the 

 single male example of B. granulata I have seen, the palm of the 

 larger (right) chelipede is granulated on its outer surface, in D. aus- 

 traliensis it is smooth. These observations and the figure (d) of the 

 chela are based on adult examples received from Dr. Bowerbank, as 

 the specimen received from Dr. Coppinger is very small and is, more- 

 over, a female. This species is also very nearly allied to B. astuta, 

 Fabricius ; but in specimens referred to the latter from the Indian 

 Ocean and the Philippines, in the Museum coHection, the carapace is 

 smooth and narrower, the legs slender, and the carpus-joint in the 

 second and third pairs not longitudinally bicarinated. In I), sima, 

 M.-Edw., on the contrary, the second and third legs are much more 

 robust, and there is a strong spine at the inner suborbital angle, 

 which is wanting in the three species above mentioned. 



ANOMURA. 

 1. Crjrptodromia lateralis. 



PDromla lateralis, Gray, Zool. Miscell. p. 40 (1831). 



Dromia verrucosipes, White, List Orust. Brit. Mus. p. 65 (1847). 



Cryptodromia lateralis, Stimpson, Proc. Ac. Nat. iSci. Philad. p. 239 

 (1858); Heller, Raise der Novara, Crust, p. 71 (1865); Miers, 

 Cat. New-Zeal. Crust, p. 67 (1876) ; Haswell, Cat. Austr. Crust. 

 p. 139 (1882). 



A male from Port Jackson, 5-7 fms. (No. 104), is referred to this 

 species. Specimens from the same locality are in the British-Museum 

 collection (Antarctic Expedition and J. Brazier). Other Australian 

 localities radicated by specimens in the British Museum are: — 

 TSiool 'B&Y(M.duBoulay}; Biisba.ne (Guming); Tasmania (Cwmmp', 

 Emald Qunn) ; Bass Straits (J. Macgillivray, H.M.S. ' Eattlesnake') ; 

 Premantle (Dr. Bowerhanh); Eing George's Sound, "West Australia 

 (F. M. Bayner, H.M.S. 'Herald'); also from Japan, Madjica^ 

 Sima (ff.-M.^. 'Samarang'), Philippine Islands, Bohol (Ouming), 

 and New Zealand. 



This species is without doubt the Cryptodromia lateralis of 

 Heller ; and Dr. Gray's short diagnosis also agrees with our speci- 

 mens so far as it serves ; but he does not mention one of the most 

 salient characteristics of the species— the nodosities of the chelipedes 

 and ambulatory legs; In certain of the specimens, however, these 

 prominences are much less apparent, and the longitudinal carinse of 



* In Siebold, Fauna Japonioa, Orust. p. 122, pi. jood. fig. 2 (sraa), 1841. 



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