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Chlorodopsis areolatus, A. M.-Edw., Nouv. Arcli. du Mus., ix., 

 p. 231, pi. viii., fig. 8. 



Carapace strongly embossed; front broad and divided into 

 four very distinct lobes. Antero- lateral borders short, nearly 

 straight, and divided into four triangular teeth. Anterior legs 

 granular ; following pairs, as well as the inferior surface of the 

 body, nearly smooth. 



Port Jackson, and other points on eastern coast. 



89. Chlorodopsis melanochirus. A.M. 



Chlorodopsis melanochirus, A. M.-Edw., Nouv., Arch, du Mus., 

 t. ix., p. 228, pi. viii., fig. 5. 



Carapace broad, convex, regions distinctly indicated, their 

 lobules separated by smooth sulci ; all the prominent parts 

 covered with granulations and stiff brown bristles, and near the 

 borders with spiniform tubercles. Front formed of two median 

 granular lobes separated by a smooth depression, and of two 

 small lateral prolongations situated internal to the external 

 antenna?. Orbits wide, their margins spinulous. Antero-lateral 

 borders divided into four lobes, each bearing several small spines. 

 Anterior legs unequal and robust ; hand clothed above and 

 externally with numerous pointed tubercles and stiff brown 

 hairs. Eingers black, white at the tips, the black extending on 

 the hand laterally and below to near the articulation of the 

 wrist. [A. M.-E.~] 



Holborn Island, near Port Denison, on coral reefs ; also 

 Darnley Island, Port Molle, etc. Found originally in New 

 Caledonia. 



Genus Etisodes, Dana. 



Nearly allied to Etisus, but with the carapace narrower and 

 more lobulated, and the front more deeply incised. 



90. Etisodes anaglyptus. 



Etisus anaglyptus, M.-Edw., Hist. Nat. Crust., i., p. 411. 



Carapace scarcely convex, and not so much as once and a half 

 as broad as long ; front and orbits nearly as in Etisus dentatus. 

 Antero-lateral borders little curved, nearly of the same length 

 as the postero-lateral, and armed with four large triangular and 



