306 NOTE ON A DECAPODODS CRUSTACEAN FROM QUEENSLAND. 



to by Mr. Taylor in a letter to Mr. R. L. Jack, Government 

 Geologist for Queensland. He says : — " In a creek, a short 

 distance to the north-east of camp 81 (return journey), there 

 occur large quantities of ironstone nodules, in one of which I 

 discovered a fine and very perfect Crustacean, which, however, 

 appears to have been lost, as it was not noticed by Mr. Etheridge, 

 Senr., when describing the collection."* Had it not been the 

 mention of the ironstone nodule, I should have concluded that this 

 second specimen in the Queensland Museum was Mr. Taylor's 

 long lost fossil, and it may even yet prove to be so. In a letter 

 recently received from that gentleman he remarks that it was an 

 " imperfect body and claw, like a lobster, but small and very little 

 bigger than a large prawn," which is certainly rather the appear- 

 ance of the specimen. At any rate, there now remains the obvious 

 fact that representatives of both the Brachyura and Macrura 

 existed in the Queensland Cretaceous seas. 



* i.e., the Daintree collection. See Geol. and Pal. Queensland and New 

 Guinea, by R. L. Jack and E. Etheridge, junr., in lit. p. 391. 



