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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
p. 119, pi. 11. fig. 2. — The synonymy of this and some allied species has been 
cleared up by the Rev. A. M. Norman, ibid. pp. 173-176, viz. : — 
Alplieus edwardsli (Aud.) is a species of the Red Sea, described lately under 
the same name by Heller ; 
Alpheus megacheles (Hailstone, 1835) = .4. edwardsii of Milne-Ed wards 
and Bate = Dimecia rubra of Westwood = CryptopMhalmus ruber of Costa= 
affinis (Guise, 1854, White) = -4. platyrhynchus (Heller, 1862), British and 
Mediterranean ; 
Alpheus ruber (Rafinesque, Milne-Edwards, Bell, White), British and Me- 
diterranean ; 
Alpheus edwardsii of Couch, 1861, is Typton sponyicola. 
Talceimm. The eastern species of the subgenus Palcemm (Stimpson) have 
been examined by Martens, Wiegni. Arch, xxxiv. pp. 27-46. They are found 
chiefly in fresh water. The shape of the rostrum is the same in every age, that 
of the arm and hand varies greatly with age, but is very characteristic in its 
final development of the several species, whereas in young specimens arm aud 
hand offer only faint indications of the future specific characters ; in the 
males the hand is rather more developed than in the females, but the dif- 
ference is not very great. P. carcinus (L.), Singapore, Sumatra, and Borneo j 
ornatus (Oliv.) = vagus (Heller), Amboina and the island of Adenai’e, near Flo- 
res; idee (Heller), Singapore, Borneo, and Luzon; dispar, sp.n.,'p. 41, Adenare; 
sinensis (Heller), Shanghai ; asperuluSf sp. n.,p. 43, pi. 1. fig. 6, Shanghai ; la- 
timanusj sp. n.,p. 44, Samar, Philippine Islands ; javanicus (Heller), Borneo ; 
grandimanus (Randall), Luzon and Samar. 
Palecmon niloticus (Klunzinger, 1866) is the species of the same name esta- 
blished, 1833, by Roux, and Bithynis longimana (Phil. Wiegm. Arch. I860) 
\a=iPalcemon gaudichaudii (M.-E,). Martens, ibid. pp. 65-67. 
Macrobrachium has been established by Sp. Bate as a new genus (Proc. 
2ool. Soc. 1868, p. 363), but is nothing but a division of Palcemmiy distin- 
guished by Milne-Edwards and Stimpson. The supposed new species, M. 
americanum, p. 363, pi. 30, is=P. jamaicensis (Oliv.) [rather Pal. brachy- 
dactylus, Wiegm.]. Ilia M. formosense (sp. n., p. 364, pi. 31. fig. 1) probably 
F=P. ornatus (Oliv.), var. ; M. gangeticum, p. 365, which is not sufficiently de- 
scribed, may be Pal. carcinus (L.) or Pal. lamarei (M.-Edw.), both occurring 
in the Ganges; M. longidigitum, p. 365, pi. 31. fig. 2, locality not known, may 
be new ; M. africanum, p. 366, pi. 31. fig. 3, is the Palcemon gaudichaudii of 
Milne-Edwards, — Bithynis longimana of Philippi, theTambo river not 
being in Africa, but in Peru. The occurrence of species of this genus in fresh 
water was knowm to Sloane, 1725. Semper, ibid. pp. 585-687. 
Typton {Cos>idi) = Pontonella (Heller) sp>ongiosus, sp. n., British, Sp. Bate, 
Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ii.p. 119, pi. 11. fig. 1.— Norman, ibid. p. 176, regards 
it as identical with T. spongicola (Costa), from the Mediterranean. 
Hippolyte barleei (Sp. B.) is an accidental variety of H. cranchii (Leach). 
Sp. Bate, ibid. p. 120. 
CumIacea. 
Cuma. Hesse describes the following new species from the northern coasts 
of France: — terginigra^ pu?ictata, ru/affasciata, send parva. The author has 
found ova in females of those species, which, ho says, proves that the 
Cumacea are developed animals. Ann. Sc. Nat. x. p. 349, pi. 19. figs. 1-19. 
