19 Orud. 
CRUSTA.CEA. 
closed, as in Rueppellia. Men. {Myom.) fornasinii (Biancome), Mozam- 
bique, and dapUcidens^ sp. n., Celebes ; Hilgendorf, 1. c. pp. 795 & 796. 
Earycarcinv^s natalensis (Krauss, as Galene) ; notes on specimens from 
Mozambique ; id. 1. c. p. 792. 
Pilumnus longicornis, sp. n,, id. 1. c. p. 794, pi. i. figs. 8 & 9, Inhambane, 
S.E. Africa. 
EpimeluSj g. n. ; allied to Pilumnus, but eye-stalks very long, orbits 
extended to the hepatic region. E. cessaci, sp. n., Cape Verde Islands. 
Milne-Edwards, Bull. Soc. Philom., June, 1878, p. 8. 
Eriphia Iceviinana (Latr.), var. srnithi (Macleay). Number of frontal 
teeth variable ; Hilgendorf, 1. c. p. 797. 
Trapezia ferruginea (Latr.) = ccerulea (Riipp.) — cymodoce (Dana) = 
subdentata (Gerst.), and T. cymodoce (Herbst.) = dentifrons (Latr.) = 
hirtipes (Lucas), both in the Bed Sea. Critical notes ; Miers, Ann. N. H. 
(5) ii. pp. 407-409. 
PoRTUNIDiE. 
Carcinus mcenas (L.), almost cosmopolitan, from Cape Cod to New 
Jersey, at Panama, Sandwich Islands, Bed Sea, Brazil, &c. ; Kingsley, 
P. Ac. Philad. 1878, p. 321, and Streets, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 7, 
p. 109. Observations on its air breathing, by Van Bees (see in General 
Subject, supra, p. 6). 
Assecla, g. n. Carapace broader than long, convex, smooth ; antero- 
lateral border five-lobed ; hiatus of the internal angle of the orbit com- 
pletely closed, tarsus of the fifth pair of feet lanceolate-ovate, as in Car- 
cinus. A. holothuri[i^ cola, sp. n., Palmyra Island, North Pacific, living in 
the cloaca of a Holothuria and Lissocarcinus orbicularis (Dana) ; Streets, 
Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 7 [1877] pp. 110-113. 
Thalamita. Some notes on the differences of several species ; Hilgen- 
dorf, 1. c. pp. 800 & 801. 
Thalamita integra (Dana) is distinct from T. admete (Herbst), Sandwich 
Islands ; Streets, 1. c. p. 107. 
Neptunus vocans, sp. n., A. Milne-Edwards, Bull. Soc. Philom. 1878, 
p. 6, Cape Verde Islands ; pterygostomic region provided with a row of 
25 parallel ridges, against which the upper edge of the hands is rubbed. 
Neptunus pelagicus (L.). Some specimens from Mozambique approach 
N. triluberculatus (Miers) ; Hilgendorf, 1. c. p. 799. 
TELPHUSIDiE. 
Telphusa flaviatiUs. No metamorphosis, as in Astacus ; B. von Wille- 
moes-Suhm, Tr. L, S. (2) i. p. 48. 
Telphusa. Hilgendorf calls attention to a linear impression in the 
second joint of the external maxilliped, the situation of which is different 
in different species. MB. Ak. Berl. 1878, p. 802. 
Telphusa Jluviatilis, var. = Cancer iberus (Giildenstedt, Eichwald), at 
Borschom and Lenkoran, Transcaucasia ; E. v. Martens, in O. Schneider’s 
Naturwiss. Beitriige zur Kenutniss der Kaukasus-lander, p. 35. [First 
