BRACHYURA. RATHBDN. 133 



CHARYBDIS (GONIOHELLENUS) TRUNCATA (Fabricius). 



Charybdis truncata, Rathbun, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., xxvi., 

 1902, p. 27, and .synonymy. Not Charybdis 

 (Gonioncptunus} truncata, Alcock, Journ. Asiat. 

 S'oc. Bengal, Ixviii., 1899, p. 67 [535]. 



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

 fathoms; P.3522; one ovigerous female. E.3103 ; two 

 ovigerous females. 



Platypus Bay, Queensland, 5-9 fathoms; E.3109; one 

 ovigerous female. 



Platypus Bay, Queensland; July 28, 1910; P.3524; one 

 male. 



The females are sensibly narrower than the male. 



Subtribe OXYSTOMATA. 



Family LEUCOSinm 



MEROCRYPTUS LAMBRIFORMIS, A. Milne Edwards. 

 (Plate xxxii., figs. 2-3.) 



Merocryptu$ lambriformis, A. Milne Edwards, Journ. 

 Mus. Godeffroy, iv., Hamburg, 1873, p. 85, pi. xiii., 

 figs. 1-lc. Whitelegge, Mem. Austral. Mus., iv., 1900, 

 p. 162, and synonymy. 



East of Bass Strait, 70-80 fathoms; E.4822; two males, 

 four females (one ovigerous). 



Twenty miles east of Babel Islands, Bass Strait, 65-70 

 fathoms; E.5162; one male, one female. 



East of Babel Islands, Bass Strait, about 70 fathoms; 

 E.5193; eleven males, thirteen females (four ovigerous). 



Sixty to eighty miles west from Euela, Great Australian 

 Bight, 80-120 fathoms; E.3169 ; one male. 



Carapace of largest male (E.5193) 10.8 mm. in total 

 length, 14.3 mm. in total breadth. The same measurements 

 for the female are 14.8 and 19.3 mm. 



