58 AUSTRALIAN MALACOSTEACA. 



hiatus occupied by the base of the antenna?, the flagellum not 

 excluded from the orbit. Fingers spoon-excavate. Eight 

 posterior legs much compressed, crested or sub-crested. Similar 

 in aspect to Atergatis. 



95. Zozymus seneus. A.M. 

 Cancer ceneus, Lin. 



Zozymus ceneus, M.-Edw., Hist. Nat. Crust., t. i., p. 385. 



Carapace moderately broad, convex, very unequal, strongly 

 embossed, and almost tubercular posteriorly ; front little pro- 

 minent and indistinctly divided into four lobes. Antero-lateral 

 borders of the carapace not prolonged beyond the line of the 

 beyond the line of the genital region, and armed with four very 

 broad teeth, compressed and united in the form of a crest. 

 Anterior legs tubercular externally, the following pairs grooved 

 on their outer surface. \_M.-E.~] 



A species of tolerably wide distribution in the Oriental 

 Kegion. There are specimens in the Australian Museum 

 collection from "Woodlark Island, but none from Australia, 



G-enus Lophozozymus, A. Milne- Edwards. 

 Allied to Zozymus, but with the carapace less convex and the 

 fingers acute. 



96. Lophozozymus octodentatus. A.M. 

 Xantho octodentatus, M.-Edw., Hist. Nat. Crust., i., p. 398. 

 Antero-lateral borders of the carapace armed with very strong 



teeth, separated from one another by deep fissures. Carapace 

 slightly convex, pretty strongly embossed near the anterior border 

 and smooth in its posterior part. Eront not very prominent, 

 divided into two lobes. Anterior legs of moderate size ; carpus 

 with two thick tubercles internally ; fingers slightly grooved. 

 Following pairs of legs very much compressed and ornamented 

 with hairs. [M.-JE.'] 



N.W. Coast (Capt. "Wolcott, RN.) ; Cape Grenville. 



97. Lophozozymus incisus. 



Xantho incisus, M.-Edw., Hist. Nat. des Crust,, i., p. 397. 

 External surface of the hands ornamented with several 

 horizontal rows of small tubercles ; carapace very broad, little 



