274 REV. T. R. K. STEBBING ON STALK-EYED CRUSTACEA MALACOSTRACA 



MACRURA. 

 Macrura anomala. 



1893. Macrura anomala, Stebbing, Hist. Crust., Internat. Sci. Ser., vol. lxxiv. p. 147. 

 1901. „ ,, Alcock, Catal. Indian Deep-Sea Crustacea, p. 204. 



1908. Heieromacrura, Verrill, Tr. Connect. Ac Sci., vol. xiii. p. 433. 



1910. Macrura anomala, Stebbing, Ann. S. Afr. Mus., vol. vi. part. iv. p. 349. (From this reference 

 other references may be traced.) 



Tribe PAGURIDEA. 



1901. Paguridea, Alcock, Catal. Indian Deep-Sea Crust., p. 205. 

 1905. ,, Alcock, Catal. Indian Decap. Crust., part ii. p. 1. 



Family Lithodid^;. 



1853. Lithodidx, Dana, U.S. Expl. Exp., vol. xiii. p. 1430. 



1900. „ Stebbing, Pr. Zool. Soc. London, p. 530. 



1901. ,, Alcock, Catal. Indian Deep-Sea Crust., p. 231. 



Genus Lithodes, Latreille. 



1806. Lithodes, Latreille, Gen. Crust, et Insect., vol. i. p. 39. 



1905. „ Stebbing, Gilchrist's Mar. Invest., "S.A. Crust.," part iii. p. 69. 



1913. „ Balss, Abhandl. K. Bayer. Ah. Wiss., suppl., vol. ii. part ix. p. 73. 



Lithodes antarcticus, Jacquinot. 



1843-1847. Lithodes antarctica, Jacquinot, Voy. Pole Sud, Atlas, pi. vii., pi. viii. figs. 9-14. 



1847. Lithodes antarcticus, White, Crust. Brit. Mus., p. 56. 



1849. Lithodes antarctica, Nicolet, Gay's Hist. Chile, "Zool.," vol. iii. p. 182. 



1852. ,, „ Dana, U.S. Expl. Exp., vol. xiii. p. 427, pi. xxvi. fig. 15. 



1853. ,, „ Lucas, Voy. Pole Sud, "Zool.," vol. iii. p. 90. 



1891. ,, ,, A. Milne-Edwards, Mission Cap Horn, "Crust.," p. 24. 



1905. Lithodes antarcticus, Lagerberg, Schwed. Sudpol. Exp., vol. v. part vii. p. 12 (giving many other 



important references). 

 1910. Lithodes antarctica, Rathbun, Pr. U.S. Mus., vol. xxxviii. p. 595. 



Nicolet says that the vernacular name of this fine crustacean is Centolla, that 

 it is much appreciated as food, not only by human beings, but also by seals, which 

 carry the creatures ashore and dash them against the rocks to get at the meat 

 without being inconvenienced by the strong spines of the carapace. The dried 

 carapace, he says, is hung up by the peasants in their cottages to act as a 

 barometer, by its reddening for fine weather and becoming pale for approaching 

 rain. He gives the length as 7f inches, with a stretch of the limbs reaching 29^ inches. 

 Dana says : " Specimens are often 5 inches long, with a breadth of 4^ inches, 

 the longest legs being 9^ inches long. The exuvia of one, procured by us, was 

 8 inches in length, with the longest legs 15 inches in length." According to 

 Miklouho-Maclay (quoted by Lagerberg), at the Isle of Chiloe this crustacean 

 is known as Barometro Araucano, because " the ordinary colour of the shell 



