MisceUaneoua. 123 carrying its tadpoles, recently noticed by Kappler and by H. S. Smith, was observed by Wyman, in Surinam, as early as 1857 (Proc. Best. Soc, Sept. 1857), and a description and figure were published in the ' American Journal,' 2nd ser. vol. xxvii. 1859, p. 5, fig. 1. The animal is named Hylodes lineatus, D. & B. ; but it is quite clear from the figure that it is Dendrohates trivittatus, Spix. The question of the sex of the parent remains obscure, for although he speaks of it as " the mother," Wyman does not appear to have investigated the matter. A specimen with young was for-tunately ])reserved in the Museum of Comparative Anatomy at Cambridge, U. S. A. On the Species o/ Galathea/ounr? on the Coasts of France. By M. Jules Bonniee. All the carcinologists who have taken up the study of the Gala-theidiB agree in recognizing the difficulties presented by these Anomura iu the precise determination of the difl'erent species. I was led to see the confusion that reigns in this group when, in the course of researches which are being made by Professor Giard and myself upon the Bopyrina, we arrived at the study of the genus Pleurocnjpta. The necessity of establishing with certainty the name of the host infested by each of our species of Epiearidse determined me to undertake a preliminary study, if not of the entire group, at least of the species most common on the French coasts. I hope soon to publish the results of my observations, with the necessary details and figures, in the ' Bulletin Scientifique,' and here I will only give the new diagnoses which 1 propose for some common and insufficiently described species. The genus Galathea is represented on our coasts by five species which may be distinguished by the presence or absence and the number of the epipodites on the thoracic feet, and then by the rela-tive sizes of the ischiopodite and meropodite of the third maxillipcd. 1. Galathea intermedia, Lillj. (= G. Andrewsi, Kin., G. Giardi, T. Barr., G. Farroceli, Gourret). Upon the thoracic feet there is only a single pair of epipodites placed on the first pair of feet ; carapace nearly smooth in the adult and terminated by an acute triangular rostrum, with four pairs of scantily developed lateral teeth ; two short spines upon the rostro-gastric groove ; ischiopodite of the third maxilliped shorter than the meropodite ; inner branch of the last three pairs of pleopoda in the male only of a single joint. Besides the normal differences of the
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