236 AUSTRALIAN MALACOSTEACA. 



the longest of winch are about halt' the length of the ramus. 

 Telson squamiform, cleft, rounded posteriorly. Length -li- lines. 



Port Jackson. 



Sub- Family Phoxules. 



Body laterally compressed. Cephalon produced in advance 

 more like a hood than a rostrum. Superior antenna? situated 

 considerably in advance of the inferior, which are not pediform 

 nor armed with hooked spines. Integumentary structure 

 generally thin and transparent. Three posterior pairs of 

 pleopoda double-branched, the last pair without hook-like spines. 



Grenus Puoxus, Kroyer. 



Eyes very small. Superior antennae with a complementary 

 appendage ; inferior antennae as long as the superior. Mandible 

 appendiculate. Maxillipedes subpediform. Both pairs of 

 gnathopoda subchelate. Coxae deeper than the respective 

 segments. Posterior pair of pereiopoda shorter than the 

 preceding. Telson double. [S. _B.] 



424. Phoxus villosus. 



Phoxus villosus, Haswell, 1. c, p. 258. 



Rostrum as long as the remainder of the cephalon, blunt. 

 Eyes small, oval. Superior antennae equalling in length the 

 cephalon and rostrum ; first segment of the peduncle twice as 

 long as broad, second scarcely two-thirds of the length of the first 

 and much narrower, provided below with a fasciculus of short 

 hairs ; third joint half the length of the second, scarcely dis- 

 tinguished from the articuli of the fiagellum ; fiagellum nearly 

 as long as the peduncle ; appendage nearly as long as the 

 fiagellum, of about fifteen articuli. Inferior antennae rather 

 longer than the superior pair ; fourth joint of peduncle broad, 

 its upper surface straight, its lower convex and provided with 

 two ridges armed with longish hairs ; fifth joint as long as the 

 fourth and of similar shape, but narrower, armed with hair 

 below ; fiagellum as long as the last two segments of peduncle. 

 Coxae fringed with slender hairs. Grnathopoda hairy. Anterior 

 pair with the propodos ovoid, twice as long as broad ; the palm 



