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Lake Ontario by H. A. Nicholson, Ann. N. H. (4) x. p. 285, and Rep. Brit. 
Assoc. 1872. 
A few Crustacea found by dredging round the island of Anticosti, Gulf 
of St. Lawrence, are enumerated by J. F. Whiteaves, Ann. N. H. (4) x. 
p. 347. 
Central America. 32 species of Crustacea collected by J. A. McNiel at the 
west coast of Central America, Nicaragua, the Bay of Fonseca, &c. are de- 
scribed by S. Smith, Rep. Peab. Ac. for 1869, published March 1871, pp. 87- 
98 : some of them are from fresh water. 
Cuba. 84 species of Crustacea Decapoda collected in Cuba by Dr. J. 
Gundlach and D. F. Poey, are reviewed by E. v. Martens (Arch. f. Nat. 
xxxviii. pp. 77-147, pis. 4 & 5), who determines the Cuban Crustacea men- 
tioned by Parra in 1787, and gives other American localities from specimens 
in the Berlin Museum. 
The Indian TTxelpliusxdce are reviewed by J. Wood-Mason, J. A. S. B. xl. 
pt. it (1871) pp. 189-200, pis. 11 & 12, ‘pp. 201-207, pis. 13 & 14, and 
pp. 449-464, pi. 27 : ho enumerates and describes 2 species of Parathelphusa 
and 7 of Thelphisa ; one of the former and two of the latter are from Cisgan- 
getic India, one Thelphusa from Pulo Penang, the rest from Burma. 
The list of Bradiyura and Anomura collected by Prof. Giglioli during the 
voyage of the frigate * Magenta,’ determined by A. Targioni-Tozzetti, com- 
prises 6 spp. of Oxyrhyncha, 21 of Cyclometopaj 20 of Catometopa^ 8 of 
Oxystoma, and 9 of Anomura from the Indian Seas, China and Japan, Pata- 
gonia and Montevideo. Bull. Ent. Ital. iv. 
DECAPODA. 
BRACIIYURA. 
OXYRHYNCHA. 
Leptopodia dehilisj sp. n., S. Smith, Rep. Peab. Ac. 1869 (1871), p. 88, 
Realejo, Central America. 
Lihinia distincta (Guerin) identified with Parra’s Cangrejo peludo,” and 
described from Cuban specimens : Martens, Arch. f. Nat. xxxviii. p. 79. 
Chorinus heros (Herbst) ; id. 1. c. p. 80, pi. 4. fig. 2, Cuba. 
Mithrax spmosissimus (Latr.), aculeatus (Herbst), hispidus (Herbst) and 
sculptus (M.-E.) ; on their differences, dimensions, and varieties, from Cuban 
specimens : id. 1. c. pp. 81-83. 
Othonia axiisodoUj sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 83, pi. 4. fig. 3, Cuba. 
Pericera trispinosa (Latr.), differences between males and females: id. 1. c. 
p. 84, pi. 4. figs. 4 a & 46. P. hicornuta (Latr.), id. ibid. pi. 4. fig. 6, both 
from Cuba. 
Parthenope horrida (L.) ; its existence in the West Indies denied, and the 
crustacean figured in Hughes’s * Nat. Hist. Barbadoes,’ pi. 26. fig. 1, identified 
with Mithrax spinosissimus^ id. I. c. p. 86. 
