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NOTE ON A NEW DECAPODOUS CRUSTACEAN, 

 PROSOPON ETHERIDGEI, H. Woodw., FROM 

 THE CRETACEOUS OF QUEENSLAND. 



By Henry Woodward, LL.D., F.R.S. (of the British 

 Museum, London), 



Communicated, with a Note on the same, by R. Etheridge, Junr. 

 (Plate iv.) 



Having been desired by my friend Mr, Robert Etheridge, Junr., 

 of the Australian Museum, Sydney, to compare the drawing 

 of the carapace of a new crustacean, from the Cretaceous 

 beds of Queensland, I have much pleasure in stating the result 

 of my examination of the figure of this interesting form. 

 There is no recent crab with which I am acquainted sufficiently 

 like the Queensland fossil to institute a satisfactory comparison, 

 unless the recent genera Dorippe and Homola may serve the 

 purpose ; but there are several fossil forms so closely resembling 

 it as to leave no doubt in my mind in referring it to the 

 Prosopoidea* of Reuss and to the genus Prosopo7ii of Von Meyer, 



The forms which most closely resemble the Australian crab are 

 the Prosopon verrucosum, Reuss {Op. cit., p, 21, taf. iv. fig. 31), 

 from the Neocomian of Boucherans in the Department of the 

 Jura; Prosopon aculeatum, Meyer (Palaeontographica, 1860, taf. 

 xxiii, fig. 24); P. ornatum, Meyer (Op. cit. figs. 25, 26); P. Heydeni, 



* Prof. Dr. August Reuss, Zur Kenntniss fossiler Krabben : Denkschrift, 

 der Math. Naturwiss. Classe der k. k. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 

 XVII. Band, 12 Nov. 1857. Wien 1859 (24 plates & pp. 90, 4to). 



t H. von Meyer, Jarhbuch flir Mineralogie, 1835, p. 329. Neue Gattungen 

 fossiler Krebse, aus gebilden vom Biinter Sandstem bis in die Kreide, 

 Taf. I-IV. pp. 28. Stuttgart 1840, 4to. Palaeontographica, Deer. 1860. 

 Bd, VII. Th. 4, pp. 183-222, Taf. xxii 



