146 " ENDEAVOUR " SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



DROMIDIOPSIS EXCAVATA (Stimpson). 

 (Plate xxxviii.) 



Dromidia excavata, Stimpson, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., 

 Philadelphia, x., 1858, p. 239 [77] ; Smithson. Misc. 

 Coll., xlix., 1907, p. 172. 



Dromia excavata, Haswell, Cat. Austral. Crust., 1882, 

 p. 140. 



Dromia ciliata, Henderson, Challenger Kept., Zool., xxvii., 

 1888, p. 3, pi. i., figs. 1-lc. Ihle, Siboga-Exped., 

 Monog. xxxixfr., 1913, p. 89. 



Between Port Stephens and Newcastle, New South Wales, 

 22-60 fathoms; P.2133; one male. 



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

 P. 2132 ; one male under a compound ascidian. 



Twofold Bay, New South Wales, 30 fathoms; E.6085; 

 one male. 



South of Mt. Cann, Victoria, 50-80 fathoms; E.4803; 

 one male. 



South and south-west of Mt. Cann, Victoria, 70-100 

 fathoms; E.6111; one female under a compound ascidian. 



Bass Strait; E.1338; one ovigerous female. E.1339; one 

 ovigerous female. E.5199; one male. E.6133; one female 

 under a large, heavy sponge (? Suberites). 



Twenty miles off Babel Islands, Bass Strait, 50-70 

 fathoms; E.6136; one male under a compound ascidian. 



Off Marsden Point, Kangaroo Island, South Australia, 

 17 fathoms; E.802; one male, one female (male under a 

 simple ascidian). E.4475; one male. P.2312; one female 

 under a compound ascidian. 



Fifteen miles south of St. Francis Isles, South Australia, 

 30 fathoms ; E.4468 ; one female. 



Bay of Fires, Tasmania, 53 fathoms; E.6162; one 

 ovigerous female under a compound ascidian. 



Largest male (P.2133) : Length of carapace 31, width 

 33.5 mm. Largest female (E.6133) : Length of carapace 

 29.5, width 31.6 mm. Diameter of eggs about 2 mm. 



