154 AUSTKALIAN MALACOSTEACA. 



abdomen provided with a conical process, with a corneous apex 

 on the right side of the base below. Length 1 in. [Sti>iips.~] 



Port Jackson. 



290. Eupagurus frontalis. 



Pagurus frontalis, Milne-Edwards, Ann. des Sci. Nat. (2e 

 serie), t. vi., p. 283, pi. xiii., fig. 3 ; Hist. Nat. Crust., t. ii., 

 p. 234 (1837). 



Rostriform tooth large, triangular, and rather prominent. 

 Front deeply excavated on each side of this tooth, and strongly 

 grooved near its border. Ocular peduncles cylindrical, of the 

 length of the anterior border of the carapace, and passing much 

 beyond the third joint of the internal antennae ; squamiform 

 teeth at their base small, dilated, pointed, and closely approxi- 

 mated. Anterior legs unequal, swollen, very finely granulated 

 and a little spinose above. Second and third pairs of legs 

 smooth, having on their upper border and on the tarsus a few 

 black spiniform points. Fourth pair of legs scarcely sub- 

 chelif orm ; last pair extremely short. Length about four inches. 

 Colour reddish, livid ; a few yellowish hairs on the hand and the 

 sides of the carapace. \_M.-E.~\ 



Australia. 



291. Eupagurus setifer. 



Pagurus setifer, M.-Edw., Hist. Nat. Crust., t. ii., p. 225. 



Ocular peduncles moderate, much shorter than the anterior 

 border of the carapace, but passing beyond the peduncle of the 

 internal antennas ; cornea small, and only occupying about the 

 fifth of the length of the peduncle. Spiniform palp of the 

 external antennas very small. Anterior portion of the carapace 

 much depressed, polished, and marked with several linear grooves 

 of which the median circumscribe a kind of cushion. Anterior 

 legs small (the left a little stouter than the right), hairy, and a 

 little spinose on the upper border. Two following pairs of legs 

 short, thick, cylindrical, and scarcely spinose except at the 

 external border of their third joint. Left leg of the third pair 

 with three longitudinal crests separated by deep grooves, the 

 two external crests marginal and setiferous. Legs covered with 



