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Imago ♂ (in alcohol). Plate XIX., figs. 6a-g. Upper lobes of the eyes red, lower pitchy black; ocelli light-grey; epistome dark-red, four yellow spots on each side, under the ocelli. Thorax pitchy black. Abdomen dark-grey, with lighter median line. Two grey spots on segments 2–6. Fore leg very long and slender, light red-brown spot at each end and at the centre of the femur, the segments marked with blackish-brown; second and third legs similarly marked. Setae light-grey, with broad black rings at alternate segments, the rings gradually spreading towards the extremity. Wings vitreous, base fulvous; veins brownish-black in marginal and submarginal areas, with cross-veinlets greatly thickened. Marginal and submarginal areas lightly tinged toward extremities. Brownish-grey spot behind the bulla. Length of body, ♂, 10 mm; length of setae, 15 mm.; length of wing, 10 mm.; length of fore leg, 15 mm. Imago ♀. Plate XVIII., figs. 5a-g. Very similar.

Art. XXI.—A Revision of the Crustacea Anomura of New Zealand. By Geo. M. Thomson, F.L.S. [Read before the Otago Institute, 22nd November, 1897.] Plates XX., XXI. In the “Catalogue of the Stalk- and Sessile-eyed Crustacea of New Zealand,” published in 1876, Miers gives a list, with descriptions, of thirteen species of Anomura, belonging to nine genera. Of these, Remipes marmoratus and Pagurus imbricatus do not belong to New Zealand at all, having been collected by Hombron and Jacquinot at Raffles Bay, which is in Northern Australia. Pagwrus pilosus, also of M.-Edwards, belongs to Dana's genus Paguristes. In regard to the remaining species, two of them—Eupagurus cristatus, Edw., and E. spinulimanus, Miers—have not again been identified, but I retain them here provisionally. The number of species included in the present list is thirty-five, belonging to sixteen genera. The Crustacea of this group are not well represented in the seas of New Zealand—rat any rate, in the littoral zone, which is the only one which has been investigated up to the present time. In individuals, such species as Petrolisthes elongatus