264 JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. 
The following four species may be at once dismissed, as the 
collector states Raffles Bay to be the locality, which is in Nor- 
thern Australia and not in New Zealand, viz. Lambrus nodosus, 
Pinnotheres laticeps, Remipes maymoratus, and Pagurus imbricatus. Also 
Atya pilipes is said to come from Apia, Upola, which is not in New 
Zealand but in the Samoan Islands. Then I think. we may 
safely strike out the following eleven species, introduced on the 
authority of the collectors of the Novara Expedition, all of which 
are large and conspicuous, typical forms certainly not from New 
Zealand—one being the land crab of the Fiji Islands. I have 
the less hesitation in striking out these names, because the list 
of New Zealand mollusca collected by the same expedition is 
full of mistakes. These are the species I refer to—Daira perlata, 
Neptunus sanguinolentus, Scylla serrata, Thalanuita dane, Heterograpsus 
sanguineus, Heterograpsus maculatus, Varuna litterata, Cardisoma hirtipes, 
Calappa hepatica, Amculus typicus, and Palemon ornatus. The following 
three species may also I think be omitted, Neptunus pelagicus, 
Grapsus pictus, and Palinurus lalandiu. 
I now give a list of seventeen species which I consider very 
doubtful, but which Iam not yet prepared to dismiss—Huema 
bifurcata, Hiastenus diacanthus, Pavamithvax sternocostulatus, Muicippa 
spinosa, Actea granulata, Leptodius nudipes, Pilumnus vespertilio, Pilum- 
* nopaeus servatifrons, Ozius truncatus, Neptunus sayi, Thalamita sima, Heloe- 
cius covdiformis, Chasmagnathus subquadratus, Chasmagnathus levis, Leto- 
lophus plamssimus, Leander natator, and Squilla nepa. 
The following possibly belong to New Zealand, but are not 
yet, so far as I know, represented in any collection in the colony 
—Leptomithvax australis, Leptodius eudorus, Eudora tetraodon, Rupellioides 
convexus, Nectocarcinus integrifyms, Planes minutus, Helice lucasi, Elam- 
ena whiter, Elamena quoyt, Phlyxia levis, Cryptodromia lateralis, Eupa- 
gurus cristatus, Clibanarius cruentatus, Clibanarius barbatus, Rhynchocinetes 
typus, Caridinia curvivostris, Virbius bifidivostris, Alpheus socialis, Alpheus 
nove zealandie, and Gonodactylus trispinosus. 
If these were taken off the list only 39 of Mr. Miers’ 95 
species would remain as undoubtedly from New Zealand. To 
these must be added several species which have been since de- 
scribed in the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, and 
the two following in the Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zo- 
ologie, series 6, Vol. iv. (1876), viz. Tvichopatus huttont (probably 
the same as Halimus hectori) and Acanthophrys filholt, both of which 
are represented in the Otago Museum. Stenorhynchus fissifvons is 
also described from Auckland, New Zealand, by Mr. Haswell in 
the Proceedings Linn. Soc. of N.S. Wales, iii., p. 409 (18769) ; 
and Mr. Wood-Mason, in the Ann. Mag. of Nat. Hist., series 4, 
Vol. xvii, p. 263, gives New Zealand as a locality for Covoms 
spinosa, 5 
Remains of crabs are found fossil at Wanganui, Oamaru, and 
perhaps other places. Harpactocarcinus tumidus (H. Woodward, 
Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc., 1876) is an eocene form from Double 
Corner, on the West Coast of the South Island. 
