232 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



Five names liave been bestowefl npon Ansh-alian specimens, 

 all of which were obtained in Qneensland, four being from 

 Cape York. Tlielphvsa transversa. Von Martens-'^, and 7'. rrassa, 

 A. M. -Edwards'*^, were described almost simultaneously, and are 

 considered sj'nouymous bj' De Man^. 7'. Jeirliarilti, Miers*', an 

 insufficiently characterised species, is perhaps mei-ely a variety 

 of T. travsvers(t. The other species T. angiistifrohx, A. M.- 

 Kdwards'', and 7'. i>hinifro}i>i, Biirgei-^, are better characterised, 

 and may be distinguished by the following key : — 



a. Lateral niar<>'ins of front pai'allel; fronto-orliital breadth equal to the 

 length of tlie eephalothorax ; penultimate leg twice as long as the 

 eephalothorax planifrons. 



aa. Lateral margins of front divergent 1)ackwards ; fronto-orbital 

 breadth less than the length of the eephalothorax ; penultimate 

 leg much less than twice as long as the eephalothorax. 



h. Pronounced postfrontal elevations extending between the epi- 

 bi'anehial teeth ; branchial regions markedly rugose both anter- 

 iorly and posteriorly nn gusti frons. 



bb. Postfrontal elevations obsolete or absent; branchial regions 

 almost or quite smooth anteriorly transversa and leichardti. 



GeothfLPHUSA r.EICHAKPTI, ^^ers. 



(Plate xlii., figs. 1-4.) 



Telplmsa lekhtrdt! Miers, Zool. Alert, 1884, p. 236. 



Aihilt male (from twenty miles west of Hugheuden, Nortli 

 Queensland.) 



Cephalothorax smooth, punctate; the punctations close and 

 coarse on the gastric regions, finer and less numerous else- 

 whei'e. The cat'apaee is veiy convex longitudinally ; the 

 middle pai't of the back is flat ti-ansversely, but the swollen 

 branchial regions luake it very convex laterally. Cervical 



3 Yon Martens— Monatsb. Ak. Wiss. Berlin, 1868, p. 609. 



•* A. Milne Edwards — Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, v., 1869, p. 177, pi. ix., 

 fig. 2. 



6 De Man— Notes Leyd. Mus., xiv., 1892, p. 241. 



G Miers— Zool. Alert, 1884, p. 236. 



"A. Milne Edwards— Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, v., 1869, p. 171, pi. viii, 

 fig. 1. 



s Burger— Zool. Jahrb., Syst, viii., 1894, p. 6, pi. i.. fig. 6. 



