760 DESCRIPTION OF SOME NEW AUSTRALIAN DECAPODA, 



Front not prominent, nearly straight ; lateral margins entire, 

 scarcely crested. Merus of chelipedes transversely lineolate, 

 hairy ; carpus one and a half times as long as broad, fringed 

 with hairs on its inner border, which projects in the form of a 

 crest, nearly smooth above ; propodos thickly clothed with hairs 

 externally, a longitudinal granular line at its lower border, 

 running to the end of the immobile finger, which has a conical 

 tooth at the base of its cutting edge, and is strongly hooked at 

 its apex ; mobile finger with a granular hairy ridge above, a 

 slight conical tooth at the base of its cutting edge, and with the 

 apex strongly hooked and acute. Length iV in. ; breadth iV in. 



Bowen; found by Mr. Alex. Morton in the siphons of an 

 Asperg ilium. 



21. Calcinus temo-reginre, sp. n. 



Surface of carapace and limbs ornamented with scattered 

 punctations. Eyes slender, longer than the front of the carapace ; 

 basal scale slender. Left chelipede somewhat swollen, smooth ; 

 hand with a row of small granules below ; fingers widely gaping, 

 obscurely toothed internally. Eight chelipede with the carpus 

 and hand compressed, slightly granulate externally, and with a 

 few scattered hairs; hand strongly cristate above, the crest 

 divided into five strong teeth ; mobile finger with three or four 

 small teeth above. Carpus of the second and third legs with a 

 minute acute spine at the distal end of its upper border. Ambu- 

 latory legs with a few scattered fasciculi of hairs. In specimens 

 preserved in spirits the chelipedes (with the exception of the 

 fingers and the carpus of the ambulatory legs) are green ; the 

 fingers are colourless ; the propodos of the ambulatory legs is 

 light dull red ; the basal portion of the dactylus dark purple, 

 the distal portion light yellow with a black tip. The rest of the 

 surface is washed with light brown and olive. Length about 

 one inch. 



Claremont Islands, Queensland Coast, on coral reef. 



