BY F. E. GRANT AND ALLAN E. McCULLOCH. 2 7 



Paratymolus sex-spinosus Miers. 

 1884. Miers, ZooL H.M.S. » Alert." p.261, pi. xxvii. fig.B. 



Port Curtis, dredged in 7 fathoms; and off Mast Head Island, 

 in 17 fathoms. 



Kgeria longipes (Linn. . 



1767. Cancer longipes Linn. Syst. Nat. ed.xii. Vol. i. pt. ii. 



1837. Eyeria arachnoid es H. Milne Edwards, Hist. IS at. Crust, i. 



p.291. 

 1895. Eyeria arachnoides Alcock, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 

 lxiv. (ii.) p.223. 



Port Curtis; a good series dredged by Dr. Pulleine. 



This species has been referred to by Milne Edwards, Haswell, 

 Miers, Alcock, and other leading carcinologists, under the name 

 E. arachnoides Humph.* That author was, however, pre" 

 Linnean, and his nomenclature is consequently inadmissible. 

 Linnaeus subsequently (loc. cit.) redefined the species, referring to 

 Rumphius' figure as his type, and giving to it the name Cancer 

 longipes. 



It has been suggested by Miersf that the species E. longi]/es, 

 E. arachnoides, E. indica, and E. herbstii are synonymous, and this 

 view is fully confirmed by Alcock {loc. cit.) who states that "all 

 the hitherto described species of Eyeria may be regarded as 

 identical with the species rather poorly figured in Rumphius' 

 Amboinische Rariteitkamer." 



It consequently appears to us that the only tenable specific 

 name is that used by Linnteus as quoted above. 



We may here note that Lamarck \ refers to the species under 

 the name Leptopus lonyipes, giving references to Linn., Fabricius, 

 and Rumphius; and it appears strange that this should not have 

 been followed by subsequent authors. 



* Rumphius, Amboinische Rariteitkamer, pl.viii. fig. 4. 



+ Miers, Zool. H.M.S. " Alert," p.132, 1884. 



^.Lamarck, An. sans Vert. v. p. 235, 1818. 



