OCCASIOJNAL NOTES. 



IY._CRU8TACEA xkw to AUSTRALIA. 



Anyone studying the Australian marine fauna must be struck 

 with the large number of species, originally described from Japan, 

 which have been traced south thi'ough the East Indian Archi- 

 pelago and eventually recognised from Northern and Eastern 

 Australia. 



Examples of two such species, hitherto unrecorded from the 

 latter- region, have been acquired by the Trustees. The first is a 

 beautiful specimen of Lamhrus validus, de Haan, the carapace of 

 which is 40 mm. in length, and was presented by Mr. Thomas 

 Temperley, who collected it at Dalmer Island, in the estuary of 

 the Clarence River, N. S. Wales. From Japan, the original 

 habitat, the lange of this species was extended by Bleeker^ to 

 .Sumatra. 



Again, a fine beach-dried example of Scyllm-iis sieholdi, de 

 Haan, measuring 410 mm., was obtained from Lord Howe 

 Island. It has been observed, according to Dr. A. Ortmama,- in 

 Japan, the Aru Islands and Amboina, so the present record ex- 

 tends its distribution southward by about one thousand and five 

 hundred miles. 



Allan R. McCulloch. 



1 Eleeker -Act. Soc. Iiido-Xeerl. Batavia, ii., ]<S57, p. 17. 

 '■^ Ortmann — Zool. Jahrb., vii., 1S95, p. 4 5. 



