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

—CETJ8TACEA. 259Haan, from the Japanese seas*, but differs from his descriptionand figure, and from a Japanese specimea in the Museum collection,in the following- characters :—The carapace is somewhat moredepressed, and granulated onlj' toward the sides, the gastric andcardiac regions being smooth ; the second and third legs are naked,the merus-joints much slenderer and less compressed than in D. granulata,and smooth, not granulated ;the following joint is bicarinatedas in D. granidata, but the carince are not granulated. lu thesingle male example of B. (jranulata I have seen, the palm of thelarger (right) chelipedo is granulated on its outer surface, in D. australiensisit is smooth. These observations and the figure (jl) of thechela are based on adult examples received from Dr. Bowerbank, asthe specimen received from Dr. Coppinger is very small and is, moreover,a female. This species is also very nearly allied to D. astuta,Fabricius ; but in specimens referred to the latter from the IndianOcean and the Philippines, in the Museum collection, the carapace issmooth and narrower, the legs slender, and the carpus-joint in thesecond and third pairs not longitudinally bicarinated. In D. sima,M.-Edw., on the contrary, the second and thii-d legs are much morerobust, and there is a strong spine at the inner suborbital angle,which is wanting in the three species above mentioned.ANOMUEA.1. Cryptodromia lateralis.PDromia lateralis, Grai/, Zool. Miscell. p. 40 (1831).Dromia verrucosipes, White, List Crust. Brit. Mas. p. 55 (1847).Cryptodromia lateralis, Stimpson, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad. p. 239(1858) ; Heller, Reise der Novara, Crust, p. 71 (1865) ; Miers,Cat. Neiv-Zeal, Crust, p. 57 (1876) ; Hasivell, Cut. Austr. Crust.p. 139 (1882).A male from Port Jackson, 5-7 fms. (No. 104), is referred to thisspecies. Specimens from the same locahty are in the British-Museumcollection {Antarctic Expedition and J. Brazier). Other Australianlocalities indicated by specimens in the British Museum are :Nicol 'Qq,}- {M. du Boiday); Brisbane {Cimiing); Tasmania {Cuming,Ronald Qunn) ; Bass Straits [J. Macgillivrcui, H.M.S. ' Rattlesnake');Fremantle {Dr. Bowerbanlc); King George's Sound, West Australia{F. M. Bayner, H.M.S. Herald ' ') ; also from Japan, Madjicahimsi{H.M.S. ' Samarang'), Philippine Islands, Bohol {Cuming),and New Zealand.This species is without doubt the Cryptodromia lateralis ofHeller ; and Dr. Gray's short diagnosis also agrees with our specimensso far as it serves ; but he does not mention one of the mostsalient characteristics of the species—the nodosities of the chelipedesand ambulatory legs. In certain of the specimens, however, theseprominences are much less apparent, and the longitudinal carinoe of* In Siebold, Fauua Japonica, Crust, p. 122, pi. xxxi, fig. 2 {sima), 1841.s2