542 GN SOME NEW AUSTRALIAN BRACHYURA, 



below ; propodos punctate, compressed, with a tooth above the 

 articulation with the carpus. Finger widely gaping, meeting 

 only at their tips' Ambulatory legs long and slender, with a 

 few scattered tubercles on the merus- joints. Length Wths 

 inch ; greatest breadth - L Vths inch. 



Hah. Broughton Islands, near Port Stephens, twenty-five 

 fathoms. 



Xanthodes atromanus, n. s. 



Allied to X. notatus, Dana ; distinguished from it mainly by 

 haying a prominent triangular tooth at the inner angle of the 

 lower orbital border ; the chelipedes not ver} 7 unecpual, the carpus 

 of both slightly tuberculate externally, and with two pointed 

 tubercles on its inner aspect, the propoda with a deep longitudinal 

 groove on the outer surface near the upper border, the larger 

 hand with two and the smaller with three longitudinal rows of 

 tubercles below this; the fingers black, — the black extending 

 backwards for some distance on the palm. Length iVths inch » 

 breadth JJths. 



Hah. ? 



This species is distinguished from X. pachydactylus, A. M.- 

 Edwards, by the presence of the rows of tubercles on the outer 

 surface of the hands, and other points. 



Panopaous acutidens, n. s. 



Carapace moderately convex, with a series of granules and 

 granular hairy tubercles in front and at the sides ; a long curved 

 granular hairy ridge extending inwards and slightly forwards 

 from near the base of the fourth lateral tooth ; smooth behind 

 and in the centre. Front four-lobed, the median lobes broad, 

 rounded, separated by a rounded excavation ; lateral lobes 

 narrower and rather more prominent. Orbital margin granular, 

 external hiatus wide. Antero-lateral margin with live wide 

 compressed teeth, the hrst low and rounded, the second larger, 



