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tbinner and proportionately (but slightly) longer legs. Tbis 
would allow of Mata being plaeed as the equivalent of Heracleo- 
ticuSy in which the legs are short and feeble. Certainly the two 
forms are so much alike that we think to a general observer 
specimens of the same size — that is, a full-grown Herbstia condy- 
liata compared with a half-grown Maia squinado — would only 
appear to differ in the length of their respective legs, or in ac- 
cordance with the variations between the descriptions of Mata 
and *YipaK\€(OTtKol as given by Aristotle. 
BRACHYURA, 
Leptopodid^e, 
The following species are recorded by Prof. Heller (Reise 
Novara) : — 
JUhidodoia, hradlimm, sp. n., I, c. p. 1, tab. 1. fig. 1, la*, from Rio Ja- 
neiro. 
Micippe hirtipes (Dana), Heller, 1. c. p. 3, from the Nicobar Islands. 
Ndxia diaaazitha (Dehaan), Heller, 1. c. p. 3, from Hongkong. — N. serpuli- 
fen'O, (M.-Edw.), Hess, Archiv fur Naturg. 1865, p. 129, from Australia. 
Tiarinia veirucosa, sp. n., Heller, 1. c. p. 4, tab. 1. fig. 2, fr:om the Nicobar 
Islands t« 
jPyeria herhstii (Edw.), Heller, 1. o. p. 4, fr’om Hongkong. 
MAIIDiE, 
EpidUua marginatua (Bell), Heller, Reise Fregatte Novara, p. 6, fi:om 
Chili. 
Acanthonyx consohrinua, (Alph. M.-Edw.), Heller, I c. p. 6, from Madras. 
Faramithrax barhicomh (Latr,), Hess, Archiv fur Naturg. 1866 p. 129, 
fr:om Australia. 
PERICERIDiE. 
JSalirmta timidua (Dana), Hess, Archiv fiir Naturg. 1866, p. 130, Australia. 
Halimua apinosus, sp. n., Hess, 1. c. p. 129, tab. 6. fig. 1. 
Xenocai’cimcs tuherculatm (White), Hess, 1. c. p. 131, Cumberland group, 
Long Island, Queensland. 
CANCERIDiE. 
Under this family, which Prof. Heller calls a tribe and Dr. Hess a sub- 
tribe within the family Cyclometopa, Prof. Heller, Reise Novara, and Dr. 
Hess in Archiv fiir Naturg. 1865, pp. 127-173, pis. 6, 7, describe the follow- 
ing species : — Cancer irroratus (Bell), Heller, I, c. p. 6, from Chili ; C. den- 
tatua (Bell), Heller, 1. c. p. 6, from Chili j C. huonii (Hombron et Jaquinot), 
Hess, Arch, fiir Naturg. 1865, p. 131, Torres Straits; C. mamillatua 
* In the text the figures are erroneously given as f. 1, 2, 
t The reference in the text is erroneously given as fig. 3. 
