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species of Grapsoid Crustacean ( Pseudo rhombila [ Pilumnoplax ] normani), which was 
taken also on the Agulhas Bank (Station 142) in 150 fathoms, and which has a bilo bated 
front, three antero-lateral marginal teeth (the first obtuse), and the chelipedes granulated, 
the granules most numerous on the smaller chela. 
“ The species collected in the South African seas show affinities both with the Atlantic 
and Oriental Crustacea. At the Cape of Good Hope several Bracliyura were collected 
at Simon’s Bay and Sea Point near Cape Town ; among them are specimens of the 
West Indian Pericera cornuta, M.-E., and Calappa fiammea (Herbst). Mursicc 
cristimcma, Desmarest (with which I believe the Oriental Cryptosoma orientis, Adams 
and White, to be identical), occurred both at these localities and in 150 fathoms, on 
the Agulhas Bank (Station 142), where also were taken Lispognathus thomsoni (Norman), 
common in the deep waters of the North Atlantic and Mediterranean, to which is also 
doubtfully referred a mutilated male trawled off Sydney in 410 fathoms (Station 164b), 
a new Grapsoid Crustacean ( Brachygrapsus kingsleyi ) distinguished from the New 
Zealand Brachygrapsus Icevis, Kingsley, by the bilobated front, and specimens of 
Ebalia tuberculosa (A. M.-E.), which was also taken frecpiently on the South Australian 
coast and in the New Zealand seas. 
“ Antarctic Region. — The only crab occurring in the Southern Ocean between the Cape 
and Australia is the Halicarcmus planatus, Fabr., common everywhere on the coasts and 
islands of the Southern Ocean, which was taken at Marion Island (50 to 75 fathoms), off' 
Prince Edward Island (85 to 150 fathoms), and at Kerguelen Island, New Zealand, and 
the Falklancls (Station 316), and which besides Eurypodius latreillei, Guer.-Menev., and 
Peltarion spinulosum, White, common in Magellan Strait and at the Falklancls, is 
the only Brachyurous species taken by the Expedition in the Antarctic or Austral 
circumpolar region. 1 
“ Oriental or Indo-Pacijic Region. — The Bracliyura taken in Bass Strait and on the 
coasts of Victoria and New South Wales are numerous, and for the most part included 
in Mr. Haswell’s recently-published Catalogue of the Australian Crustacea ; among 
them, however, are several species apparently new to science. At Port Philip 
(Station 161, 33 fathoms) occurred the European Portunus corrugatus (Pennant), and 
at Port Jackson (3 to 8 fathoms) specimens of a species of Pachygrapsus, which 
I think cannot be distinguished from the West Indian Pachygrapsus transversus, 
Gibbes. Pachygrapsus transversus occurred also at the Bermudas alicl St. Vincent, 
and may itself prove to be identical with the Mediterranean Pachygrapsus 
maurus, Lucas. 
“ The only Station on these coasts where any Bracliyura (beside the Lispognathus 
thomsoni already referred to) occurred at a greater depth than 100 fathoms is Station 
1 Dr. R. v. Willemoes Sulim (Zeitschr. f. iciss. Zool., Bd. xxir. p. xvi, 1874) remarks “dass hchere Crustaceen 
den Ufern der antarctiscken Inseln fast ganz fehlen.” 
