20 ' ENDKAVOCR " SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



f>. A spinule on outer margin of poster bital lobe not 

 far behind the tip. Sternum not deeply ex- 

 cavate. A spine at posterior end of preorbital 

 lobe. 



c. Carapace suboblong. A smooth, hemispherical 

 swelling on merus of outer maxilliped. Rostral 

 horns slender. Legs long and slender, the first 

 leg about twice as long as carapace : globifer. 

 or. Carapace subovate. Outer maxillipeds sMolleiiat 

 union of merus and ischium, but not conspicu- 

 ously so. Rostral horns short and stout. Leas 

 of moderate size, first leg about one and a half 

 times as long as carapace : s^inulosiis. 



M,. No s piiiule on outer margin of postorbital lobe. 

 Sternum deeply excavate. Chelipeds stout, legs 

 slender. A triangular tooth at posterior end of 

 preorbital lobe: tuberculatiis. 



LEI'TOMITHRAX SPINUJ.OSUS. / /<itr, // . 



(Plate ix.) 



Leptom&thrax HJII milieu*. Has\\ell. Pror. Linn. Soc. N.S. 

 Wales, iv.. 1ST!) (1SSO). p. 441, pi. xxv., fig. 3 ; Cat. 

 \ istral. Crust.. 1X82. p. 16. 



Taken at numerous stations from New South Wales to 

 Eucla, including Tasmania. 



Shoalhaven Bight. Ne\\ South Wales. 15-45 fathoms : one 

 ovigerous female. 



Off Tathra Head, near Moruya, New South Wales, 100-250 

 fathoms ; one ovigerous female, concealed under a coating of 

 compound ascidian, while a slender finger sponge as long as 

 the carapace projects from between the rostral horns. 



Off Gabo Island, Victoria. 80 fathoms ; one ovigerous 

 female encrusted with sponge. 



Bass Strait ; two ovigerous females, one of which bears 

 encrusting serpulid tubes and bryozoans. 



Fifteen miles east-north-east of Cape Barren. Cape Barren 

 Island, 53 fathoms ; one young female. 



Oyster Bay, Tasmania, 26 fathoms ; two young. 



Forty miles east of Kingston, South Australia, 30 fathoms ; 

 one male, with encrusting serpulid tubes and bryozoans. 



Forty miles west of Kingston, South Australia, 30 fathoms ; 

 three males, soft shell, and covered with hydroids, branching 

 bryozoans. etc. 



