j. 1
" :
;
scarcely any intermarginal hiatus. The ambulatory legs are deficient
except one fifth leg, which has the joints except the last
compressed aud bordered with long hairs ; the upper margin of the
merus is acute and obscurely crenulated ; dactyl hairy, styliform,
and short, with a small terminal claw. Colour (in spirit) light yellowish
white. Length of carapace 3 | lines ( 6 | millim.), breadth
4 | lines (about 9 | millim.).
The sino-le female in the collection was obtained at Thursday
Island, 4 -5 fms. (No. 165).
There is also a female in the Museum collection obtained near
Java (H J I.S . ‘ Samarang’).
As I have examined no male specimens of this curious species, and
am ignorant of the position of the male verges, I do not venture to
remove it from the vicinity of Pilumnus, in which genus it is retained
by Mr. Haswell. There is, I think, no doubt of the specific
identity of our example with the specimen figured in the ‘ Catalogue
of Australian Crustacea,’ though Avhether this be identical with the
P. fimbriatus of Al.-Edwards remains somewhat uncertain, on account
of the brevity of the diagnosis of the latter author. This species
certainly cannot be retained in Pilumnus as at present restric ted ;
and I am inclined to think it should be removed from the Cancroidea
to the Grapsoidea. I am, however, unable at present to indicate
its exact affinities.
Mr. HasAvell records it from Port MoUe.
64. Pilumnopeus serratifrons {Kinahan).
Two specimens are in the collection from Port Jackson (No. 104).
The British Museum contains specimens from Port Jackson
(Cuming), Port Phillip, Victoria (Dr. J. B . Kinahan), and the Australian
seas, no definite locality (Stutchhury) ; also from New Zealand.
In my ‘ Catalogue of the New-Zealand Crustacea,’ p. 21 (1876),
I have already pointed out the possible identity of Pilumnopeus
crassimanus, A. M.-Edwards, with F. serratifrons. I believe Mr.
Haswell is right in regarding Heteropanope australiensis, Stimpson,
as also synonymous with this species (Cat. p. 70).
65. Ozius guttatus, var. speciosus.
Ozius speciosus, Hilgendorf, in Van der Decken’s Reisen in Ost-Afrika,
iii. p. 74, pi. ii. fig. 1 (1869).
An adult female is in the collection from Elinders Island, Northeast
Australia. Mr. Haswell records it from Port Denison and Port
Curtis.
To the same variety, as I think it must be designated, belongs an
adult female in the British-Museum coUection from Mauritius ( Lady
Frances Cole).
In the typical form of Ozius guttatus, as described and figured by
Prof. Alph. Milne-Edwards in his Report on the Crustacean Eauna
of New Caledonia, the frontal teeth are much smaUer and less prominent
than in either Hilgendorf’s figure of his 0. speciosus or in
the two specimens I have before me. As, however. Prof. A. Milne-
Edwards had evidently a larger series for examination, and unites
0. guttatus and 0. speciosus, I do not venture to regard the two forms
as distinct species.
Air. HasweU records 0. guttatus from Port Denison and Port
Curtis.
This species has evidently a wide Oriental range, having been
found in the Red Sea, at Zanzibar, Alauritius, Batavia, Torres
Straits, and New Caledonia.
66. Neptunus pelagicus (Linn.).
Of this very common Oriental species two males are in the first
coUection from Port Curtis, 7 fms. (No. 88), and a male from Prince
of Wales Channel, 3 -4 fms., in the second collectlon._ Specimens
from the same locality are in the coUection of the British Museum,
obtained during the voyage of H.Al.S. ‘ Rattlesnake’ by Air. Alacgillivray,
and also from the folloAving Australian localities:—Port
Jackson (J. Aiacgillivray) ; Sydney (B. Schütte); Swan River (./. B.
Juices); Shark Bay, W. Australia (F. M. Bayner, H.M.S. ‘ Herald ’) ;
also from. New Zealand (Sowerhy).
Resides the above, there are specimens in the Aluseum coUection
from the Red Sea (Major J. Burton, Major AlacDonald); Gulf of
Suez f^B. MacAndrew); Zanzibar (Dr. AD/c) ; Pondicherry, Indian
Ocean (Gen. Hardwiche) ; Penang (Dr. Cantor); Borneo (Bleeker’s
coll.); Celebes, Badjoa, &c. (Dr. Bleeker’s coll.); Timor Laut (H. 0.
Forbes); Philippine Islands, Zebu (Cuming); Shanghai, Cheefoo
(Swinhoe) ; Japan (Mus. Leyden); Honolulu (H.Al.S. ‘ Challenger’) ;
New Caledonia (Alacgillivray); also others, without special indication
of locality, from the collections of the ' Herald,’ ‘ Rattlesnake,
and ‘ Samarang.’
The Neptunus armatus, A. Alilne-Edwards, from Shark Ray, W.
Australia*, of which the types, from the coUection of H.M.S.
‘ Herald,’ are in the British-Aluseum coUection, is not referred to in
Haswell’s Catalogue. The specimens are of small size and probably
not fully groAvn. Both carapace and limbs are slightly pubescent.
The carapace is relatively somewhat narrower, and the antero-lateral
teeth broader and less distant one from another than in N. pelagicus
of about the same size, which otherwise this species very
closely resembles.
67. Neptunus (Amphitrite) hastatoides (Fabricius).
Three examples are in Dr. Coppinger’s second coUection from
Eriday Island, Torres Straits, 10 fms. (No. 153), and a series of j !