160 AUSTRALIAN MALACOSTRACA. 



Genus Cenobita, Milne-Edwards. 

 Body narrow ; carapace elongate ; front not rostrate. Abdo- 

 men spirally coiled ; its surface for the most part fleshy. 



301. Cenobita rugosa. 



Cenobita rugosa, M.-Edw., Hist. Nat. Crust., ii., p. 241 ; Dana, 

 U.S. Explor. Exped., Crust., i., p. 471 ; Heller, Reise der Novara, 

 Crust., p. 82. 



Cenobita clypeata, Owen, Crust. " Blossom," p. 85, pi. xxv., 

 fig. 3. 



Gastric region nearly flat ; labial border of the branchial 

 regions very prominent and slightly curved. Ocular peduncles 

 much compressed, about twice as long as high, their basal scale 

 moderate and pointed. Legs granular and slightly muricate. 

 Laro'e hand moderate, ornamented above with a row of small 

 oblique and parallel crests. Tarsi short and triangular. Superior 

 and external border of the two last joints of the third left leg 

 raised into an obtuse crest. 



Sydney. Occurs also in the Indian Ocean, and at Tahiti. 



302. Cenobita Olivieri. 



Pagurus chjpeatus, Olivier, Encycl., viii., p. 643, pi. 311, fig. 1. 



Cenobita Olivieri, Owen. Crust. "Blossom," p. 81; Dana, 

 U.S. Explor. Exped., Crust., i., p. 470. 



Surface of carapace with absolescent granuliform tubercles, 

 but nearly smooth. Peduncles of eyes rough, granulous above, 

 very much compressed, height more than half the length ; 

 triangular, vertically oblong. The superior of the flagella of the 

 inner antennae about double the length of the inferior. Large 

 hand with short and small but spiniform tubercles, which are 

 obsolescent below and crowded above, especially on the moveable 

 finger. A dense tuft of short hair along the upper margin of 

 both hands. Inner surface of hands flat or even excavate in 

 the upper half. Tarsi short, but very little longer than the 

 preceding joint, and very stout, with short spiniform tubercles 

 having black corneous tips, and rest of legs similar in surface 

 except that the points are less crowded. A short pubescence on 

 some of the legs. [Dana.'] 



