26 ' ENDEAVOUR " SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



Thirteen miles north by west of Double Island Point r 

 Queensland, 25-26 fathoms ; one ovigerons female. Reg, 

 No. E2030. 



Length 63.8, width 62 mm. Chelipeds partly, and carapace 

 almost entirely (up to the postorbital constriction), covered 

 with Balanus. Not only are the rnerus joints of the ambu- 

 latory legs tuberculate, but the carpus and propodus of 

 the last pair. 



Genus CRYPTOPODIA, Milne Edwards. 



CRYPTOPODIA QUEENSLANDI, sp. nov. 



(Plate xii.) 



Type-locality. 20 miles north-east of Cape Gloucester, 

 Queensland, 35 fathoms ; adult male, holotype. 



Measurements. Length of carapace 27.4, width of carapace 

 49.3, width between orbits 5.6, length of front measured from 

 the line of the anterior orbital angles 3 mm. 



Description. Carapace extremely broad ; lateral angle 

 strongly marked ; antero-lateral margin cut into shallow 

 irregular lobes, the re-entering angle at the beginning of the 

 lateral wings well defined ; posterior margin slightly concave 

 in its middle two-fifths. Triangular depression deep, a large 

 granulated tubercle at its lateral angles. Surface smooth 

 except on the boundary of the triangular depression, from 

 which a line of low granulated tubercles stretches part way 

 across the branchial regions. Rostrum short, broad, sides 

 arcuate, tip blunt ; edge finely crenulate, granulate and 

 pitted. 



Chelipeds twice as long as carapace, massive, with smooth 

 surfaces ; and thin, cristiform edges. The upper edge. of the 

 manus has five more prominent, flat, triangular teeth, the 

 outer edge has three enlarged teeth. 



Edges of merus, carpus and propodus of ambulatory legs 

 laminate, those of the merus finely serrulate. 



Relationships. The shape of the carapace approaches that 

 of C. dorsalis, Adams and White 24 and C. spatulifrons, MISTS, ~?> 

 both of which have the posterior margin concave in the middle, 

 but our species is intermediate, the slope from the lateral 

 angle backward being less longitudinal than in C. spatulifrons, 

 and yet more gradual than in C. dorsalis. The character of the 



24. Adams and White Zool. Samarang, Crust., 1848, p. 30, pi. vi., figs, 

 5, 5a. 



25. Miers Ann. Mag. Nat. Mist. (:>), iv., 1879, p. 2, pi. v., fig. 10. 



