Report on the zoological collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean ...

;178CRUSTACEA.E. J. MIERS.The Crustacea collected by Dr. R. Coppinger on the north-western,northern, and north-eastern coasts of Australia are very numerousand are interesting not only on account of the large number of newor rare species obtained, but also on account of the careful mannerin which in nearly every instance the nature of the sea-bottom anddepth of water &c. was recorded.Until the publication of Mr. W. A. Haswell's comprehensive workon the Podophthalmious and Edriophthalmious Crustacea of Australia*, but few systematists had dealt specially with this departmentof the fauna of this district.To the Australian species enumerated by Milne-Edwards in hisgreat workf, numerous additions were, however, made by Prof. J.D. Dana in the Eeport on the Crustacea collected by the UnitedStates Exploring Expedition under Commodore Wilkes J, thesebeing, with few exceptions, from the coast of New South Wales.In 1856 Dr. J. R. Kinahan § published an account of a smallcollection of marine Decapoda collected by himself at Port Phillip,Victoria ; and in 1865 Dr. Hess||gave a systematic account of thethen known species of Decapoda of Eastern Australia, based uponthe work of previous authors and a collection from Sydney in theMuseum of Gottingen.In the same year appeared the <strong>Report</strong> by Prof. Camil Heller onthe Crustacea collected by the Austrian frigate Novara'^f, wherein'twenty-four species are enumerated, also from Sydney. Referencemay also here be made to an account of the Astacidce of Australia(" Ueberblick der neuhollandischen Elusskrebse ") by Dr. vonMartens **.Mr. Haswell's recently published and very useful Catalogue,which was not received until this <strong>Report</strong> was considerably advanced,* ' Catalogue of the Australian Stalk- and Sessile-eyed Crustacea.' Sydney,1882.t 'Histoire Naturelle dcs Crustac^s' (1834-40).I United States Exploring Expedition, vols. xiii. &xiv., Crustacea (1852-53).§ Journal of the Royal Dublin Society, vol. i. pt. 3, p. Ill (1856).Archiv f. Naturgeschichte, xxxi. p. 127 (1865).II^ ' Reise der osterreichischeu Fregatte Novai-a,' Crustaceen (1865).** Monatsbericht der Akad. Wissensch. Berlin, p. 615 (1868).