634 



ME. E. J. MIEES ON THE 



intermediate that no reliance can be placed on this colouriDg as 

 a specific character. 



28. Phlog(enas jobiensis {Meyer) ; Gould, B. New Guinea, 

 part vii. — Chalcophaps margaritha), D'Alb. Salvad. Ann. Mus. 

 Civic. Genov. yii. p. 836 (1875).— Phlogoenas margarithse, Salvad. 

 op. cit. viii.p. 495 (1878). 



A somewhat immature specimen in Mr. Broadbent's collection 

 in brown plumage, glossed w^lth purplish violet on the sides of the 

 neck and shoulders ; the head dark grey, with a few rufous fea- 

 thers remaining ; the throat and chest whitish, obscured by rusty 

 brown or greyish edges to the feathers ; rest of under surface 

 ashy brown, with obscure fulvous edges to the feathers. The 

 specimen is not unlike Dr. Meyer's typical bird figured by Mr. 

 Gould (I. c). 



29. Talegallus ftjscieosteis, Salvad. ; Sharpe, Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. xiii. p. 504. 



The specimens sent by Mr. Broadbent and Mr. Groldie bear out 

 the character of the dusky bill, on which Count Salvador! separated 

 the species. 



On the Classification of the Maioid Crustacea or Oxyrhyncha, 

 with a Synopsis of tlie Families, Subfamilies, and Gronera. 

 By Edwaed J.'Miers, T.L.S., P.Z.S., Assistant in the Zoo- 

 logical Department, British Museum. 



[Read March 0, 1879.] 



(Plates XII. and XIII.) 



Inteoductoey Eemaeks. 



The Oxyrhyncha, or Maioid Crabs, have been placed by nearly 

 all carcinologists at thediead of the Brachyura, on account of the 

 high degree of concentration exhibited both in the sensory organs 

 and nervous system. There is perhaps no one of the great divisions 

 of the higher Crustacea more numerous in genera and species, or 

 more interesting on account of the great variety both of form and 

 structure exhibited in the difl"erent types, nor any in which a 

 thorough revision of the classification is more urgently needed. 

 No comprehensive account of the group has appeared since the 



