ANOMOURA PAGURIDEA. 439 



Diogenes miles (Fabr.), Dana. 



Plate 27, fig. 9 a, part of hand, much enlarged ; b, tarsus of second 

 or third pair of legs. 



Sooloo Sea ; also, New South Wales. 



Length, two inches. The rostriform piece between the eyes is 

 slender, a little concave above in its posterior half, with the edges 

 denticulate, the teeth larger and spiniform about the apex. The base 

 of the inner antennae projects the length of its last joint beyond the 

 eyes. Front margin sinuous and denticulate. Basal scale of the 

 eyes truncate above and denticulate. Carpus and hand with move- 

 able finger spinous along upper margin in two or three rows. Flagel- 

 lum of outer antennae thin and lax pubescent, not fringed below. 

 Tarsus of second and third pairs of legs very short spinulous on upper 

 margin. 



Cancer miles, Fabricius, Ent. Syst., 2, p. 470. 

 Cancer Diogenes, Herbst, ii. 17, pi. 22, f. 5. 



Pagurus miles, Fabricius, Supp., 412; Edwards, Crust., ii. 235, and Ann. des Sci. 

 Nat., vi. 1836, 284, pi. 14, f. 2. 



Diogenes custos (Fabr.), Dana. 



Plate 27, fig. 10 a, part of animal, enlarged two diameters ; b, 

 ophthalmic rostrum and basal scale ; c, part of outer antennae ; d, left 

 hand ; e, right hand ; /, part of third pair ; g, extremity of fourth 

 pair. 



New South Wales. 



The specimens here described as the custos, have the following 

 characters in addition to those mentioned by Milne Edwards. Pos- 

 terior region of the carapax pilose ; anterior region with a few hairs 

 in tufts and surface a little uneven. Ophthalmic rostriform appen- 

 dage sparingly dentate, and not as narrow as in the miles. Outer 



