STUDIES IN AUSTRALIAN CRUSTACEA. 



No. 2*. 



By Allan R. McCulloch, Zoologist. 



(Plates lxxxviii.-lxxxix., and figs. 16, IT.) 



CCENOBITA SPINOSUS, M. Edwards. 



(Plate lxxxviii., figs. 1-2.) 



Pagurus clypeatus, Olivier, Encycl. Meth. Ins., viii. , 18l2, p. 643, 

 pi. cccxi,, fig. 1 (nee. Cancer clypeatus, auct.). 



Cainobita spinosa, M. Edw., Hist. Nat. Crust., ii., 1837, p, 242. 

 Id. Ortmann, Zool. Jahrb. S} - st., vi., 1892, p. 318, pi. xii., 

 tig. 24. 



Ccenobita olivieri, Owen, Zool. "Blossom," 1839, p. 84, Id. Dana, 

 U.S. Expl. Expd., Crust., pt. i., 1852, p, 470. Id. Heller, 

 Reise Novara, Crust., 1865, p. 82. Id. Haswell, Cat. Austr. 

 Crust., 1882 p. 160. 



Cenobita brunnea, Dana, loc. cit., p. 470, pi. xxix., fig. 10. Id, 

 Haswell, loc. cit., p. 161. 



Birgus hirsutus, Hess, Arch. Nat., xxxi., 1865, p, 36, pi. vii., 

 'fig. 16. 



? Ccenobita perlata, var. affinis, Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (5), 

 v., 1880, p. 372, pi. xiv., fig. 8 {fide Ortmann). 



Obs. — Ortmann has included under the heading of C. spinosus 

 a variety differing from the typical form in having the dactyli of 

 the third left legs less slender, and flattened externally. Following 

 Dana, he determined this variety hs C. olivieri, Owen, but a 

 reference to the original description and Olivier's figure of that 

 species shows that it has the dactyli rounded and spiny as in the 

 typical C . spinosus, and the name therefore cannot be applied to 

 those in which they are smooth and flattened. I therefore pro- 

 pose the new name variabilis for the variety in which the two 

 last joints of the third left legs are smooth and flattened externally, 

 and the hand of the larger cheliped is nearly smooth, and with an 

 oblique row of larger granules on its upper exterior surface. 



* For No. 1, see p. 51. 



