8 AUSTRALIAN MALACOSTltACA. 



12. Xenocarcinus tuberculatus. 



Xenocarcinus tuberculatus, White, Append. Jukes" Yoy. "Fly," 

 p. 36 (1847) ; Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 110 (1847) ; List Crust. Brit. 

 Mus. p. 123 (1847); Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) L, p. 221, 

 (1848); Miers, Crust. "Erebus" and "Terror," p. 1, pl.ji., fig.l; 

 A. Milne-Edwards, Nouvelles Archives du Museum, t. viii., 

 p. 253. 



Carapace with nine tubercles placed in three transverse lines, 

 the central tubercle of the first line double, one placed before 

 the other, the central tubercle of the last line also double, both 

 placed transversly ; the greater part of the bealc covered with 

 minute, closely placed hairs and scales, two short lines of longer 

 hairs on the upper side above and before the eyes ; two or three 

 waved longitudinal lines on the posterior half of the carapace, 

 the inner line continued before the eyes. First pair of legs 

 (in female) short, not reaching to the end of the beak, the claws 

 small, equal and minutely toothed. [White.'] 



Long Island, Cumberland Group. 



13. Xenocarcinus depressus. 



Xenocarcinus depressus, Miers, Crust. "Erebus" and "Terror," 

 p. 1. 



Carapace regularly oval in outline ; upper surface flattened. 

 Several small granules behind and between the eyes at the base 

 of the rostrum, and irregular indistinct granulated elevations in 

 the middle line and on either side of the carapace, liostrum 

 sub-cylindrical, densely pubescent, terminating in two spines 

 and deeply excavated between them. 



Cape Howe. (Brit. Mus.) 



(anus Huenia, He Haan. 

 Carapace in the male sub-triangular, ilat ; in the female with 

 lateral lobes. liostrum slender, deep, laterally compressed, 

 acute. Prae-ocular spine small. Hands compressed, cristate 

 above. Ambulatory legs more or less dilated and compressed. 



11. Huenia bifurcata. A.M. 



ILacnia bif areata, Streets, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1S70, 

 p. 107 ; Miers, Catal. Crust. N. Z., p. 3. 



