BY J. BRAZIER, C.M.Z.S., ETC. 431 



The living specimen dredged at Sydney Heads is only five lines 

 long, those from New Caledonia are very fine and found in great 

 variety, both in deep water and on saiuly mud-flats at low water. 



Note ox Oniscia Ponderosa, with its Locality. 

 By J. Brazier, C.M.Z.S., etc. 



OxiSCIA PONDEROSA. 



Oniscia ponder osa, Hanley, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1858, p. 255, pi. 

 xlii., fig. 9—10. 



Sab. Penirihonen, north coast of New Caledonia, {R. C. 

 Ross iter). 



When it was described by Mr. Hanley the locality of this very 

 rare and beautiful species was unknown. The specimen before 

 me I consider the grandest of the genus, and it is the first found 

 in Australian Seas ; much remains to be done in New Caledonia 

 with the dredge. 



On the Australian Brachyura Oxyrhyncha. 

 By William A. Haswell, M.A., B.Sc. 



[Plates 25—27.] 



Descriptions of several species of Australian Maioid Brachyura 

 occur in the works of Milne-Edwards, and the earlier writers on 

 the subject, and a few have more recently been described by 

 Dana, Streets, A. Milne-Edwards, Hess and Miers. These amount 

 in all to nineteen species, belonging to thirteen genera. I have 

 now to add thirty-seven species (of which seventeen appear to be 

 new to science), thus bringing up the total number to fifty-six 

 species, belonging to twenty-seven different genera. The greater 

 number of the new species are contained in the fine collection 



