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Show 68 ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS MADE DURING [Jail. 4, bellus {Xantho bellus, Stimpson), to which species also his X. leuco-manus is to be referred. ACTiEA RUFOPUNCTATA. Xantho rufopunctatus, M.-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust, i. p. 389 (1834). Actcea rufopunctata, A. M.-Edwards, N. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. i. p. 268, pi. xviii. fig. 1 (1865); Heller, Cr. siidl. Europa, p. 70 (1865). A female of very small size (breadth only 3 lines), but laden with ova, is in the collection, which apparently belongs to this species. A. rufopunctata, which was originally described from the Red Sea, has a wide Indo-Pacific distribution. Dr. Coppinger's specimen was dredged at a depth of 35 fathoms, amid coral on the Hotspur Bank, lat. 17° 32' S., long. 35° 45' W . Hence (if the example be correctly determined) it would appear that its range extends into the South Atlantic. PLATYONYCHUS BIPUSTULATUS. Platyonychus bipustulatus, M.-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust, i. p. 437, pi. xvii. figs. 7-10 (1834) ; Gay, Hist, de Chile, iii. p. 148 (1849) ; A. M.-Edw. Arch. Mus. H. N. x. p. 413 (1861); Miers, Zool. Ereb. & Terror, Crust, p. 2, pi. i. fig. 1 (1874); Cat. New- Zeal. Crust, p. 32 (1876), ubi synon. Platyonychus purpureus, Dana, Cr. U.S. Explor. Exped. xiii. p. 291, pi. xviii. fig. 3 (1852); Cunningham, Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool. xxvii. p. 492 (1871). A female individual was obtained in shallow water in Trinidad Channel. Dr. Cunningham records it from Coquimbo and Luco Bay ; and it is widely distributed through the Chilian, Australian, Indian, and Japanese seas. PELTARION SPINULOSUM. Atelecyclus spinidosus, White, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (ser. 1) xii. p. 345 (1843). Peltarion spinidosum, White, List Crust. Brit. Mus. p. 52 (1847) ; Dana, U.S. Explor. Exped. xiii. Crust, i. p. 304, pi. xviii. fig. 6 (1852); Cunningham, I. c. p. 494 (1871). Peltarion magellanicus, Jacq. & Lucas, Voy. Pole Sud, Zool. iii. Crust, p. 83, pi. viii. fig. 1 (1853). Several specimens of this common inhabitant of the Falkland Islands and Patagonian seas were collected. The localities are:-Sandy Point, 9-10 fathoms, bottom sand, one female; Cockle Cove, on a muddy bottom, one male; Puerto Bueno, 2-7 fathoms, bottom rocky, three females. GOMEZA SERRATA. Gomeza serrata, Dana, U.S. Expl. Exp. xiii. Crust, i. p. 305, pi. xviii. fig. 7 (1852). A male of this species (which is probably rare, as it was not met |