BRACHTDRA. - RATHBUN. 105 



As the specimens increase in size, all these characters 

 become less marked except the size of the hand, the right 

 becoming gradually larger than the left. 



The red colour of the back may be uniform, as described 

 by McCoy, or divided up into different patterns in 

 different specimens. It may form vermiculating lines on 

 the yellow ground colour or the latter may break through 

 it as irregularly shaped spots. The chelipeds are all 

 marked with vermicular red lines, and the fingers are 

 uniformly scarlet at their junction with the hand. 2 



LlAGORE RUBROMACULATA, de 



Liagore nibromaculata, Alcock, Journ. Asiat. Soc. 

 ' Bengal, Ixvii., 1898, p. 93 [328] and synonymy. 



Twenty miles north-east of Cape Gloucester, Queensland, 

 35 fathoms; E.3120; one small female. 



New to the Australian fauna. 



GALENE BISPINOSA (Herbst}. 



Cancer Itispinosus, Herbst, Naturg. d. Krabben u. Krebse, 

 i., No. 2, 1783, p. 144, pi. vi., fig. 45 ; and iii, No. 2, 

 1801, p. 11, pi. liv., fig. 1 (female). 



Galene bispinosa, Alcock, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 

 Ixvii., part 2, 1898, p. 136 [371], and synonymy; 

 Etheride-e and McCulloch, Rec. Austr. Mus. xi. 1, 

 1916, p. 10, pi. iii., figs. 3-4. 



Seven miles north-north-east of Bowen, Queensland, 16 

 fathoms; E.3096; one male. P.3517; one female. 



Twenty miles north-east of Cape Gloucester, Queens- 

 land, 35 fathoms; E.3121; one female. 



Two of Herbst 's specimens were extant in the Berlin 

 Museum in 1896; one is a male, labelled "type," and may 

 be the original of pi. vi., fig. 45, the other is a female and 

 is figured on pi. liv., fig. 1. 



2 Taken almost wholly from Mr. McCulloch' s notes. 



