BRACHYURA. RATHBCN. 119 



disappear ; dactyli spinulose above at base only ; a punctate 

 groove runs backward from the next to the lowest sinus 

 of fixed finger, a similar groove near upper edge of 

 dactylus; also a row of punctae near the prehensile teeth 

 of each finger; fingers pale brown in the male, darker in 

 the female, the colour not extending quite to their bases. 

 Dorsal aspect of chelipeds hairy. 



In the female, the propodus has a straighter lower border, 

 the small palm is rough all over the outer surface and half 

 way down the fingers, the large palm is also rougher than 

 in the male but finely so, and the spinulous area on the 

 dactylus is longer. In the small male the armature of the 

 lesser palm resembles that of the female. 



Merus of ambulatory legs subentire above; carpus and 

 propodus armed with spines, carpus with about four, 

 propodus about five. 



Remarks. The convexity of the carapace in connection 

 with the complex lateral spines is sufficient to fix this 

 species. 



PILUMNUS TOMENTOSUS, Latreille. 

 (Plate xxvii., figs. 1-2.) 



Pilumnus tomentosus, Latreille, Encyc. Meth. Hist., Nat., 

 Entom., x., Paris 1825, p. 125 (Nouvelle Hollande). 

 Milne Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust., i., 1834, p. 418. 

 Not Filhol, Mission de 1'Ile Campbell, Paris, 1885, 

 p. 375, pi. xlv., figs. 6-8. 



Pilumnus tomentosus ( ?), Miers, Challenger Kept., ZooL, 

 xvii., 1886, p. 160, pi. xiv., fig. 4. 



Shoalhaven Bight, New South Wales, 15-45 fathoms; 

 E.278; one male, two females (one ovigerous). P.2139 ; 

 one ovigerous female. 



Off Gabo Island, Victoria, 80-100 fathoms; E.4780; one 

 male, one female. 



South-east of Cape Everard to south of Gabo Island, 

 Victoria, 90-150 fathoms; E.6095; three males, three 

 females. 



From sixty miles south of Diana's Peak to about forty 

 miles south of Mt. Cann, Victoria, 70-80 fathoms; E.6088; 

 two males, two females. 



