BKACHYURA. RATHBDN. 139 



CYMONOMOPS SIMILIS, Grant. 

 (Plate xxxv., figs. 3-5.) 



Cymonomops similis, Grant, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South 

 Wales, xxx., 1905, p. 315, pi. x., fig'. 1. 



Off Babel Islands, Bass Strait, 50-80 fathoms; E.4818; 

 one male, two ovigerous females. 



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

 fathoms; E.5161 ; one male, one ovigerous female. 



Largest male (E.4818), total length of carapace 6.2, 

 width 5.8 mm. Largest female (E.4818), total length of 

 carapace 6.6, width 7 mm. 



The chelipeds of the male are similar to those of the 

 female, but more unequal (E.4818), both chelipeds of the 

 measured female being the size of the left or larger cheliped 

 of the measured male. In this male the first left ambulatory 

 leg is reduced in length considerably below that on the 

 right side, especially noticeable in the merus. The male 

 abdomen is very small, extremity semicircular and appar- 

 ently fused with the fifth segment. Eggs large, about 

 .6 mm. in diameter. 



Subtribe DROMIACEA. 



Family LATREILLIID^]. 



LATREILLIA AUSTRALIECNSIS, Henderson. 



LatreiUia australiensis, Henderson, Challenger Kept., 

 Zool., xxvii., 1888, p. 24, pi. ii., figs. 4-46. White- 

 legge, Mem. Austral. Mus., iv., 1900, p. 165. 



East of Bass Strait; E.4799; two males. E.6143; one 

 male, and two ovigerous females. 



Off Babel Islands, Bass Strait, 60 fathoms; E.6150; four 

 males, one ovigerous female. 



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

 fathoms; E.5166; one male. 



South-eastern Australia; E.4401; one female. 



