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large, regularly arranged, pearl-like tubercles on its upper border ; 

 with five very prominent longitudinal crests externally, separated 

 by deep grooves, and each ornamented with a row of close-set 

 tubercles ; and with isolated granulations on the under surface. 

 Fingers very short and granular ; carpus with a row of granu- 

 lations, and with other scattered tubercles on its upper surface. 

 Ambulatory legs smooth. [A. M.-JEdw.] 



Darnley Island (Macleay Museum), Port Molle, fourteen 

 fathoms (W. A. H., H.M.S. "Alert."). Pound originally in 

 New Caledonia. 



Unlike that described by Milne- Edwards, the Australian speci- 

 mens have the anterior portion of the carapace tomentose, and 

 the ambulatory legs are ornamented above with rows of strong 

 hairs. 



126. Actumnus tomentosus. A.M. 

 Actumnus tomentosus, Dana, U.S. Explor. Exped., Crust., i., 



p. 244, pi. xiv., fig. 2. 



Carapace narrow, very convex and sub-globular, very minute 

 tomentose, anterior portion in part faint areolate ; front emar- 

 ginate ; anterp-lateral margin very short, four-lobed ; postero- 

 lateral margin concave, smooth. Anterior feet stout, sub-equal, 

 tomentose like the carapace, minutely tuberculate ; fingers short, 

 'not gaping. Last pair of legs sub-dorsal. 



Albany Passage, near Cape York. (W. A. H.) 



Sub- Family Eriphiince. 

 Orbit well closed below, without internal hiatus, basal joint of 

 the antennas altogether excluded from the orbit. Carapace 

 either a little transverse or sub-quadrate. 



G-enus Rttppellia, Edwards. 

 Carapace rather broad. Plagellum of the antennae very little 

 removed from the orbit. Third joint of the external maxillipedes 

 a little transverse. 



127. Ruppellia annulipes. A.M. 

 Buppellia annulipes, Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust., t. i., p. 422. 

 ? Buppellia annulipes f Dana, U. S. Explor. Exped., Crust., 



Vol. i., p. 246, pi. xiv., fig. 4. 



