SPIDER CRABS. RATHBUN. 25 



Forty miles south of Cape Wilson, South Australia, 100 

 fathoms ; one female. 



East coast of Flinders Island, Bass Strait ; one male. 



Twenty miles east of Babel Islands, eastern slopes, 65-70 

 fathoms ; one male. 



Great Australian Bight, south of Eucla, Long. 129 28' E., 

 250-450 fathoms ; one young female. 



Great Australian Bight, sixty to eighty miles west of Eucla, 

 80-120 fathoms ; two males, one ovigerous female. 



The spatula on the intestinal region, though usually entire 

 except for some fine spinules, is in one specimen a male from 

 east of Babel Islands, bifid at the top, forming two flat, truncate 

 spines or teeth. 



Genus SCHIZOPHRYS, White. 

 SCHIZOPHRYS ASPERA, Milne Edwards. 



Mithrax asper. Milne Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust., i., 1834, 

 p. 320. 



Schizophrys aspera, Alcock, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Ixiv., 

 1895, p. 243. 



Southern Queensland ; one male. 



Spencer's Gulf, South Australia, 26 fathoms ; one male, 

 one female. 



Spencer's Gulf, South Australia, 20 fathoms ; one male. 



The specimens are all large, and represent a form with 

 short rostrum, short marginal spines, and a rather even 

 carapace, few of the granules being enlarged and elevated. 

 The bend on the lower margin of the propodus of the cheliped 

 is almost rectangular. 



Family PARTHENOPID^. 

 Subfamily PARTHENOPHSLE. 



Genus PARTHENOPE, Weber. 

 Subgenus RHINOLAMBRUS, A . Milne Edvxirds. 



Cancer contrarius, Herbst, Naturg. d. Krabben u. Krebse, 

 iii., part 4, p. 8, pi. lx., fig. 3. 



Lambrus (Hhinolambrus) contrarius, Alcock, Journ. Asiat. 

 Soc. Bengal. Ixiv., 1895, p. 266, and synonymy. 



