STUDIES IN AUSTRALIAN CRUSTACKA — McCULLOCH. 



312.-) 



If Brachygrapaua Uevis, Kingsley, is identical with this 

 species, as seems probat)le, then its range must he extended to 

 New Zealand. 



Family XANTHINE. 



PlLUMNUS SEMILANATUS, MierS. 



(Fig. 43). 



Pilumnus semilanatus, Miers, Zool. " Alert," 1884, p. 222, pi. 

 xxii., fig. 13, and "Challenger" Rept., Zool., xvii., 1886, 

 p. 149. Id., Grant and McCulloch, Proc, Linn. Soc. N. S. 

 Wales, xxxi., 1906, p. 17. 



Miers' figure apparently represents the young of this species. 

 In large specimens the hairs on the carapace and legs are much 



Fig. 43. 



longer and more shaggy than he shows them, though their 

 distribution appears to be the same. I therefore give a figure 

 of a full-grown specimen measuring 18 mm. across the carapace. 



Examples are in the Australian Museum from Port Curtis 

 and Port Denison, Queensland, while I have also examined 

 one from Port Hedland, North-Western Australia. 



