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RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



Eruma, gen. nov. 



(Fig. 47). 



Carapace triangular, smooth, the regions well defined. Ros- 

 trum formed of two rather short spines, obliquely deflexeu". 



Eyestalks long, retractile against 

 the sides of the carapace when 

 they are partly hidden from 

 above by the two postocular 

 spines ; no preocular spine, 

 hinder angle of the supraocular 

 eave produced outwards. Basal 

 anteunal joint broad with the 

 antero-external angle greatly 

 produced, visible from above ; 

 a very small spine near the 

 antero-internal angle. Merus of 

 external maxillipeds as wide as 

 the ischium, the antero-external 

 angle scarcely expanded; palp 

 articulated at the antero-internal angle. 



Legs rather short and thick, the propodus and dactylus of 

 each with a small raised buttress fitting against the overlapping 

 lobes of the preceding joint. Chelipeds not much enlarged in 

 the male. 



Abdomen consisting of seven segments in both sexes. 



Type. — Paramicippa hispida, Baker. 



Fig. 47. 



EruxMa iiispidum, Baker. 



(Fig. 48). 



Paramicippa hispida, Baker, Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr., xxix., 

 1905, p. 126, pi. xxiv., fig. 6, 6a. 



Two specimens, a male and female, are in the Museum which 

 were received from Mr. W. Baker as his P. hispida from South 

 Australia. They differ so much in some important details from 

 his figures that I have re-figured them here. 



Mi-. Baker compared his species with /'. tuberculosa, Milne 

 Edwards, which is the type of the genus Paramicippa ami 

 belongs to the subfamily Maiinse, but it appears to me to belong 



