432 ON THE AUSTRALIAN BRACHYURA OXYRHYNCHA, 



obtained by the Hon. "William Macleay on the eastern coast and 

 in Torres Straits; the remainder are in the collection of the 

 Australian Museum, or were obtained by myself at Port Denison. 

 The arrangement followed is the modification of Prof. Dana's 

 classification of the group proposed by Mr. E. J. Miers * 



Fam. I. INACHIDjE. 



Genus Stenorhynchus, Lamarck. 



1. Stenorhynchus curvirostris, A. Milne- Ed wards. 

 Stenorhynchus curvirostris, A. Milne-Edwards, Journal des Museum, Godeffroy, 

 Band i, Hft. iv.. p. 75. 

 Sab. Bass' Straits, (Godeffroy Museum). 



2. Stenorhynchus brevirostris, mihi. Plate xxvii. fig. 5. 

 Stenorhynchus brevirostris, Haswell, Proc. Linn. Soe., N.S. W., vol. iii.,p. 408. 

 Sab. Port Jackson, Port Denison. 



3. Stenorhynchus fissifrons, mihi. 

 Stenorhynchus fissifrons, Haswell, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., vol. hi., p. 409. 



Gastric region of the carapace armed with a short, blunt spine 

 and two tubercles placed in the form of a triangle, the base being 

 directed forwards, and the apex formed by the spine ; cardiac 

 region with a single short thick spine ; branchial regions each 

 with three rounded, larger, and three smaller, pointed tubercles 

 and a few rounded granulations ; hepatic regions elevated, 

 ornamented with two or three pointed tubercles. Eostral spines 

 short, acute ; frontal furrow extending as far back as the line 

 joining the posterior borders of the orbits ; upper orbital border 

 armed with three small, acute teeth on its outer surface ; wrist 

 with two tubercles on its outer surface, and two small teeth on its 

 inferior border ; hand with a row of short acute spines on its 



* Proc. Linn. Soc. Zool., vol. xiv., pp. 634 — 673, 



