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species of Grapsoid Crustacean ( Pseudorhombila [ Pilumnoplax ]. normani), which was 
taken also on the Agulhas Bank (Station 142) in 150 fathoms, and which has a bilobatecl 
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 Brachyura 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 jlammea (Herbst). Mursia 
cristimana, 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 hingsleyi) distinguished from the New 
Zealand Brachygrapsus Icevis, Kingsley, by the bilobated front, and specimens of 
Ebalia tuberculosa (A. M.-E.), which was also taken frequently 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 Halicarcinus 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 Falklands (Station 316), and which besides Eurypodius latreillei , Guer.-Menev., and 
Peltarion spinulosum, White, common in Magellan Strait and at the Falklands, is 
the only Brachyurous species taken by the Expedition in the Antarctic or Austral 
circumpolar region. 1 
“ Oriental or Indo-Paci/ic Region. — The Brachyura 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 Pacliygrapsus, which 
I think cannot be distinguished from the West Indian Pachygrapsus transversus, 
Gibbes. Pachygrapsus ■ transversus occurred also at the Bermudas and St. Vincent, 
and may itself prove to be identical with the Mediterranean Pachygrapsus 
maurus, Lucas. 
“ The only Station on these coasts where any Brachyura (beside the Lispognathus 
thomsoni already referred to) occurred at a greater depth than 100 fathoms is Station 
1 Dr. R. v. Willeruoes Suhm (Zeitschr. f. iciss. Zool., Bd. xxir. p. xvi, 1874) remarks “class Inhere Crustaceen 
den Ufern der antarctischen Inseln fast ganz fehlen.” - 
