MACRURA. - SCHMITT. 387 



overhanging "cap-like" almost the whole distal margin 

 of the side plates of the petasma. 



Size. The "Endeavour" .specimens of this species 

 range from 120 to about 190 mm. in length, thus exceed- 

 ing in maximum size the largest hitherto recorded, so 

 far as I am aware, Kishinouye's of 150 mm. 



PENEUS PLKBKJUS, 

 (Plate Ixv., figs. 1-4. Plate Ixviii., fig. 1.) 



Pencpus plcbejus, Hess, Archiv f. Naturg., 1805, i., p. 108, 

 pi. vii., flg. 19. 



Penceus canaliculatHK, Haswell, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 



iv., 1879 (1880), p. 38, and Cat. Austral. Crust., 1882, 



not including synonymy. 

 Penceus canaliculatus, var. australiensis, Bate, "(Mini 



lenger" Kept., Zool., xxiv., Macrura, 1888, p. 248, pi. 



xxxii., fig. 3. 



Penceus canaliculatus, Ogilby, Edible Crust. N.S.W., 1893, 

 p. 202, not including synonymy. Id., Stead, Zoologist 

 (4), ii., London, 1898, p. 209. 52 ' Id., Whitelegge, Mem. 

 Austral. Mus., iv., 1900, pt. 2, p. 197. 



Pencrus plcbejus, de Man, "Siboga" Exped., xxxix^, 

 Decapoda, pt. i., PemeidaB, 1911 (plates, 1913), pp. 

 90 and 108-111, pi. ix., tig. 30a; and references there 

 given. Id., Pesta, Archiv f. Naturg., 1915, Abt. A., 

 Heft 1, p. 112, text-figs. 4, 5. 



Occurrence. 13 miles N.E. of North Reef, Queens- 

 land, 70-74 fathoms; one male and one female (Reg. Nos. 

 P.3G14 and E.3208). 



18 miles S. by W. of Lady Elliott Island, Queens- 

 land, 18 fathoms;' six females (Reg. No. E.205G). 



18 miles S.W. by S. of Lady Elliott Island, Queens- 

 land, 18 fathoms; three males (Reg. Nos. P.2403, P.2404 

 and P.2105). 



9 miles E. of Frazer Island, Southern Queensland, 

 24-20 fathoms; eight females (Reg. Nos. P.2402, P.3G15, 

 P.3G1G, P.3G17 and E.2055). 



52 The three following localities were given by Stead : Port 

 Jackson ; Botany Bay ; Japan. Specimens from the two former were 

 the basis of his identification. The "Japan" locality, like other extra- 

 Australian localities in the same paper, were taken from literature. 

 F. A. McNEiLL. 



