4 ENDEAVOUR SCIENTIFIC RESISTS. 



Family INAC'HID/E. 



Subfamily INACHIN^. 



Genus ACHAEUS, Leach. 



ACHAEUS TENUICOLUS, Miers. 



Achaeus tenuicollis, Miers, (Challenger Kept., Zool., xvii., 

 1886. p. 9. pi. i., figs. 3-3c. Whitelegge, Mem.' Austral. 

 Mus., iv.. 1900, p. 140. 



An ovigerous female was taken on the eastern slope of Bass 

 Strait in 70-80 fathoms. 



This specimen has been compared with a male from Port 

 Jackson, in the United States National Museum, and received 

 from the Australian Museum. The female has a shorter neck 

 than the male but agrees in other respects. The eggs are 

 numerous and of large size, about 7 mm. in diameter, the 

 carapace of the mother measuring 8.7 mm. long and 6.7 mm. 

 wide. 



Genus ACHAEOFSIS, Stimpson. 

 ACHAEOPSIS THOMSONI, NornuDi. 



Dorynchus thornsoni, Norman, in Wyville-Tho?n.son's Depths 

 'of the Sea, 1873, p. 175, text-fig. 34. 



Lispognathus (Dorynchus) Thomsoni, A. Milne Edwards, 

 Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris, xciii., 1881, p. 878 

 (translation in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5). ix., 1882, p. 38). 



Three males were taken in the Great Australian Bight, sixty 

 to eighty miles west of Eucla, in 80-120 fathoms. 



This widely distributed species was also obtained by the 

 11 Challenger '' in Australian waters, near Sydney, in 4 JO 

 fathoms. 1 



Genus CYRTOMAIA, Miers. 



(JYRTOMAIA MACCULLOCHI, 2 Sp. HOV. 



(Plates i. and ii. and Figs. 1 and '!.} 



Type-locality. Great Australian Bight, south of Eucla, 

 Long. 129 28' E., 250-450 fathoms ; male (E6263). This 

 specimen is taken as type, because, although not the largest 

 in the collection, it has the pair of gastric spines and the 

 rostral spines perfect, and the chelipeds well developed. 



1. Miers Challenger Rept., Zool.. xvii., 1886, p. 29. 



2. Named for Mr. Allan R. McCullooh, Zoologist of the Australian Museum . 



