24 ' ENDEAVOUR " SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



bases oi the two there is a narrow buttonhole slit. The 

 postorbital cup has an acuminate tip, and not far behind the 

 tip a spinule on the outer margin. 



Interantennular spine of good size. Basal segment of 

 antenna bearing two spinulous ridges, the inner terminating 

 in a downward and forward-pointing spine at the inner angle, 

 and the outer ridge terminating in a upward and forward- 

 pointing spine at the outer angle. Ventral surface of cara- 

 pace furnished sparingly with acute tubercles and granules, 

 while a single pterygostomian spine points obliquely out- 

 ward. The maxlllipeds are distinguished by a smooth, 

 round, whitish excrescence 011 the merits, at its posterior end, 

 but nearer the outer than the inner angle. 



Sternum moderately excavate, and showing a few granules 

 near the abdomen. Abdomen pubescent. 



The chelipeds are a little longer than the carapace, and when 

 extended reach to the middle of the propodus of the first 

 ambulatory leg ; the arm and wrist are dorsally tuberculate, 

 and the former has a short, subterminal spine above. The 

 legs are slender and dimmish rapidly in length, but the last 

 one is still longer than the cheliped. The distal half or two- 

 thirds of each dactylus above the horny tip is covered with 

 a short pile. 



The species inhabits the Great Australian Bight, and was 

 taken at the following localities : 



Southern Australia. Two males, one being the ho lo type. 



Great Australian Bight, south-west of Eucla, about Long. 

 127 E., 80-120 fathoms ; two males, one of them young. 



Great Australian Bight, sixty to eighty miles west of 

 Eucla, 80-120 fathoms ; four males, two females, all young. 



Genus CHLORINOIDES, Haswell. 

 CHLORINOIDES SPATULIFER, Haswell. 



Paramithrax spatulifer, Haswell, Proc. Limi. iSoc. JN'. S. 

 Wales, vi., 1882, p. 540 ; Cat. Austral. Crust., 1882, 

 p. 14. 



Chlorinoides coppingeri, Miers, Challenger Kept., Zool., 

 xvii., 1886, p. 53, pi. vii., (iL r s. 3, 'io. 1)6 (not C. ^')f,pi')igfr\, 

 Haswell, 1881). 



JShoalhaven Bight, New South Wales, 15-45 fathoms ; two 

 ovigerous females. 



