AUSTRALIAN MALACOSTBACA. 161 



N. W. Coast of Australia (Capt. Wolcott, K.N.). Found 

 previously in the Paumotu Archipelago, at Clermont Tonnerre, 

 Waterlancl Islands, and Tahiti. 



303. Oenobita brunnea. 



Genobita brunnea, Dana, U.S. Explor. Exped., Crust., i., p. 470, 

 pi. xxix., fig. 10. 



Birgus hirsutus, Hess, Archiv fur Naturg., Vol. xxxi., p. 1G2, 

 pi. vii., fig. 16. 



Anterior region of the carapace convex, naked, smooth. Eyes 

 hardly shorter than the front, smooth. Feet armed with short 

 conical spines having corneous tips ; anterior pair sub-equal, 

 hands sparsely hirsute, upper margin of hands dense pilose, 

 carpus of left leg having upper surface gibbous. Second and 

 third pairs lax and sparsely hirsute, tarsus subterete, very long 

 (longer than the fifth joint), spinules of outer surface imperfectly 

 seriate. 



Sydney? (Hess). Found originally at Upolu. 



Sub-Tribe G-alatheidea. 

 Carapace elongated, of hard, crustaceous consistency, and 

 with a deep groove above, partly defining the gastric region. 

 Internal antennae short, external antennae elongated. External 

 maxillipedes pediform. Sternum wider behind. Abdomen elon- 

 gated, rounded above, of crustaceous texture, with elongated 

 appendages beneath, and terminal appendages fan-shaped and 

 expanded as in the Macroura. Anterior legs large, perfectly 

 chelate. Three following pairs with styliform tarsi ; fifth pair 

 weak, inflexed. 



Genus Gtalathea, Fabr. 



Front unicuspidate. Basal joint of the internal antennae 

 cylindrical. External maxillipedes of moderate length, the ter- 

 minal joints not expanded. 



304. Galathea australiensis. A.M. 

 Galathea australiensis, Stimpson, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 



Vol. x., sp. 351. 



Carapace broad behind, strigose, the ridges with rather long 

 cilia, the gastric region moderately circumscribed, armed with 



