338 RECORDS OP THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



explanation. I therefore forwarded a specimen of M. parviros- 

 tris to the Paris Museum for comparison with the type of P. 

 tuberculosa, and Professor L. E. Bouvier has very kindly informed 

 me that it is undoubtedly identical with that species. 



Family PARTHENOPIDiE. 



Ceratocarcinus dilatatus, A. Milne Edivards. 



Ceratocarcinus dilatatus, A. Milne Edwards, Nouv. Arch. Mus. 

 Paris, viii., 1872, p. 256, pi. xiv., fig. 2. 



A fine female example, dredged near Murray Island, Torres 

 Strait, agrees very well with the figure quoted. Neither the 

 genus nor the species appear to have been previously recognised 

 from Australia. 



Family PAGURID^E. 



Paguristes squamosus, sp. nov. 



(Fig. 49). 



Paguristes barbatus, Whitelegge, Proc. Roy. Soc. N. S, Wales, 

 xxiii., 1889, p. 232. Id., Stead, Zoologist, 1898, p. 208 

 (? not Clibayiarius barbatus, Heller). 



Carapace smooth only towards the centre, otherwise rough 

 with irregular pits and furrows ; frontal region hollowed out 

 above with some larger and smaller elevations. Sides of the 

 carapace hairy, while scattered tufts are present on the rougher 

 parts above. Rostrum triangular, projecting well beyond the 

 antero-lateral angles, each of which bears a minute spine ; the 

 interspaces between them and the rostrum are excavated and 

 have thick raised edges. Eye-stalks rather slender, their length 

 equal to about two-thirds the width of the anterior portion of 

 the carapace, a trifle longer than the antennular peduncle. 

 Ophthalmic scales large, bi- or trifid at tlie tip. Basal portion 

 of antenna] acicle broad, densely setose, with 3-4 external, and 

 1 internal spine; anterior portion styliform, hairy, with 2-3 

 strong spines on its inner and outer borders, reaching almost to 

 the end of the peduncle. Flagellum extending to the tips of the 

 chelineds. 



