756 DESCRIPTION OF SOME NEW AUSTRALIAN DECAPODA, 



middle of the upper orbital margin ; infra-orbital tooth rather 

 prominent. Antero-lateral border with f^)ur small conical teeth, 

 the first separated by a short interval from the external orbital 

 angle, and by a nearly equal distance from the second ; third 

 small, separated from the second by about twice the distance 

 which separates the first two; fourth larger than the third, 

 separated from it by an interval similar to that between the first 

 and second ; a little in front of the third tooth is a low rounded 

 tubercle. An acute tooth immediately behind the cervical suture. 

 An acute tooth at the distal end of the upper border of the carpus ; 

 hand with a row of about half-a-dozen granules above. Length 

 H in. in. ; breadth If in. 



Adelaide (Australian Museum). 



13. Dromia sculpta, sp. n. 



Carapace about as broad as long, ornamented, as well as the 

 limbs, with numerous rounded granules, but free from conspicuous 

 hairs ; gastric and anterior branchial and hepatic regions very 

 prominent, tuberculated, each of the tubercles capped with a 

 group of granules. Front very prominent, with three teeth, of 

 which the mesial is the smallest, is triangular and sub-acute, 

 directed slightly downwards, but quite visible when the carapace 

 is viewed from above ; lateral teeth each with an accessory 

 denticle on its outer border (representing the supra-orbital tooth). 

 External orbital and infra-orbital teeth rudimentary. Carpus of 

 chelipedes with two prominent conical spines near the distal end 

 of its upper surface ; three similar spines or teeth on the upper 

 surface of the hand, two close above the insertion of the daetylus, 

 the third at the proximal end. Merus, carpus, and propodos of 

 ambulatory limbs ornamented with a few short blunt spines or 

 tubercles, and with a few scattered, short, hooked hairs. Segments 

 of the abdomen (except the last) each ornamented with four 

 compressed tubercles. Length of carapace & in. 



Port Jackson, in a few fathoms of water ; Port Stephens. 



