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Show 30 MR. E. J. MIERS ON CRUSTACEA FROM [Jan. 14, (for a species of this genus) ; the arm with a longitudinal line granules on its anterior and posterior margins and on its upper surface; the wrist nearlv smooth; the hand trigonous, smooth on its three faces, with a line of "small tubercles or granules on its outer and inner margins ; of these about four on the outer margin are somewhat larger and equidistant; all the tubercles of the anterior legs are seen under a lens to be themselves granulated ; the mobile finger has three or four spines on its upper margin ; the ambulatory legs are very small and compressed ; the margins of the merus-joints of the last two pairs are granulated. Length about \ inch, greatest breadth about -J-2 inch. Corean seas (no exact particulars regarding the locality). One male individual collected. This species belongs to the same group as the L. lamellifrons, Ad. & Wh., L. gracilis, Dana, and L. affinis, A. M.-Edw. From the latter (of which there is a large series from the Javan and Indian seas in the British-Museum collection) it differs in the much fewer tubercles of the carapace and arms, which are less rounded, and from the two former in the much greater breadth of the carapace behind the orbits, and the absence of spines on the outer margin of the hands, &c. CYCLOMETOPA vel CANCROIDEA. CANCRID^E. ACTCEA GRANULATA. Cancer granulatus, Audouin, Explic. Planches, p. 87, de Savigny, Egypte, Atlas, Crust, pi. vi. fig. 2 (1809). Cancer savignyi, M.-Edw. Hist. Nat. Crust, i. p. 378 (1834). Actcea granulata, De Haan, Faun. Japon. Crust, p. 18 (1835); A. M.-Edw. Nouv. Archiv. Mus. Hist. Nat. i. p. 275 (1865). 1 Actceapura, Stimpson, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. p. 32 (1858). A small male example is in the collection without definite locality attached. This species appears to be common in the Indo-Malayan, Australian, and Japanese seas ; and its range extends to the Red Sea, Mozambique, and the Mauritius. ACT^EODES TOMENTOSUS, Var. Zozymus tomentosus, M.-Edw. Hist. Nat. Crust, i. p. 385 (1834). Actccodes tomentosus, Dana, Crust. U.S. Expl. Exp. xiii. (i.) p. 197 (1852). Actcea tomentosa, A. M.-Edw. N. A. Mus. H. N. i. p. 262 (1865). In this variety the carapace is very broad in proportion to its length, the granules with which it is covered small and very numerous, the anterior areolets scarcely, and the posterior (e. g. the cardiac) not at all, distinguishable ; the colour is dull red. Length rather more than \ inch, breadth -^ inch. Collected at the Goto Islands, at low-water mark. The two males and female collected, on account of the indistin-guishability of the areolets, present a very different appearance both |