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edges are crenulate and have broad black horny tips, and meet 

 along their whole length. Inner surfaces of hands a little 

 rough, with tufts of setae. 



Second and third legs reaching beyond the chelipeds, with 

 long felted hairs along their upper and lower borders. All the 

 legs are similar. Upper border of the merus with a few weak 

 spines which are most distinct on the third pair. Carpus with 

 strong spines above, and a very distinct groove on the hinder 

 surface which also extends on to the propodus and dactylus. 

 Anterior faces of the last two joints with broad squamiform 

 tubercles which have crenulate and hairy margins like those of 

 the chelipeds. Dactylus broad and longer than the penultimate 

 joint, with a black terminal spine, and some smaller ones on the 

 upper and lower edges near it. 



Colour. — Whitish in spirits. In life, pink with pale brownish 

 hairs; the rougher parts more or less tinted with green. Spines 

 on chelipeds madder brown. Eye-stalks green. Antennules, 

 antenna?, and third maxillipeds with alternating brown and 

 white rings. Abdomen translucent grey and white, caudal 

 appendages white. 



I have examined the specimens which Whitelegge doubtfully 

 identified as Paguristes barbatus, Heller, and find them to be 

 identical with those described above. I consider that they 

 differ from that species in having the upper surface of the hand 

 covered with squamiform tubercles. Neither Heller nor 

 Ortmann mention any such tubercles in their description of 

 P. barbatus, whereas they are so distinct in all that I have seen 

 that it is not likely that they would have been overlooked. Mr. 

 Stead has enabled me to examine the specimens which he recor- 

 ded as P. barbatus, but I regard them also as distinct from 

 that species. 



Type. — A male, with a carapace 19 mm. long, from Maroubra, 

 near Sydney. Others are in the Australian Museum from the 

 same locality which are somewhat larger ; Whitelegge's specimens 

 were from several localities in Port Jackson and on the coast 

 near Sydney. 



Paguristes barbatus, Heller. 



C/ibayiarius barbatus, EJeller, Verh. zool, but. Ges* Wien., 1862, 

 p. 52 I, and Ueise "Novara", Crust., 18G5, p. 90, pi. vii.. t * «_r - 5. 

 Id., Miers, Cat. Crust. N. Zealand, 1870. p. 67. Id., Filhol, 

 Miss. I'ile Campbell, iii., 1886, Crust., p. 424. To?., Thomson, 



Trans. N. Z. Inst., xxxi., 1898, p. 172. 



