. Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute . re longer and more acute; thesedifferences may be due to age or sex. Having had the opportunity of ex-amining a series of seven specimens, both male and female, I feel convincedthat the differences are not due to age or sex, and therefore have butlittle hesitation in distinguishing it from H. hectori, Miers, and adopting thename so long ago applied. Description :—Eostral spines long, acute and depressed. Anterior legsmoderate, armed with acute spines, hand smooth. A single roAV of verystout hairs arranged alternately, one long and o
. Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute . re longer and more acute; thesedifferences may be due to age or sex. Having had the opportunity of ex-amining a series of seven specimens, both male and female, I feel convincedthat the differences are not due to age or sex, and therefore have butlittle hesitation in distinguishing it from H. hectori, Miers, and adopting thename so long ago applied. Description :—Eostral spines long, acute and depressed. Anterior legsmoderate, armed with acute spines, hand smooth. A single roAV of verystout hairs arranged alternately, one long and one short, along both marginsof the second and third pairs of legs. A few scattered hairs of the samecharacter on the fourth and fifth pairs of Cape Campbell, Wellington, Napier. Gelasimus thowscni.—Fighting males and one female of this singular and pugnacious-looking crab,were brought to me some time ago by one of the local fishermen. * See Trans. , Inst., Vol, VII., p. 225, p. BuLLER.—Notes on some Species of TMitrnal Mothx. 237. The carapace is smooth, convex, broader in front than behind, anteriormargin siunate, with a small depressed rostrum, grooved along the angles produced into a point. Ophthalmic peduncles reach-ing to the angles of the carapace ; the grooves which protect them havethe margins finely crenated. As in all the members of the genus, the righthand is very large, being nearly twice as long as the greatest width of thecarapace, or just four times the length of the ophthalmic surface of hand and wrist coarsely granulate ; fingers two-thirdstotal length of hand. External faceof immobile finger with a grooverunning the whole length. Thefingers, when closed, leave a con-siderable interspace ; the innermargin of each finger furnished with very coarse granules. Fingers meetingat the tips for one-fourth of their length. Abdomen of male and femaleseven-jointed. Hab. Wellington. Mysis meinertzhageni.
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