[Proc. Eot. Soc. Victoria, 19 (N.S.), Pt. I., 1906]. 



Akt. III. — Census of the Victorian Decapod Crustacea. 

 Part I. (Bracht/ura). 



By S. W. FULTON and F. E. GRANT, F.L.S. 



[Read 10th May, 1906.] 



No catalogue of the crabs occurring in Victorian waters has so 

 far been published. The attached list represents the authentic- 

 ated occurrences of species of Brachyura so far as we have been 

 able to ascertain, either fnjm our own collecting or from 

 published records. Doubtful records and inadequately diagnosed 

 species are excluded fiom the list, which must, however, only be 

 regarded as provisional. Further collecting, and more particu- 

 lai'ly further dredging in deep water, will doubtless in the future 

 enormously increase the number of recorded species, but it 

 appears desirable to submit this list as a starting point for further 

 work. We may say that we have several species, not here 

 enumerated, about the nomenclature of which we are not satistied. 



In the arrangement and natural sequence we have followed 

 Dr. A. Alcock's " Matei'ials for a Carcinological Fauna of India."^ 



BRACHYURA OXYRHYNCHA 



Family— MAIIDAE. 



Sub-family — Inachinae. 



Achaeus tenuicollis, Miers. Off Port Phillip, 33 fathoms ; off 

 East MonccBur Island (Challenger). 



Gonatorhynchns tumidus, Haswell. Port Phillip (fairly common). 



Halimus truncatipes, Miers. Western Port. 



Halimus tiimidiis, Dana. Port Phillip ; Western Port. 



Haliimis spi?iosus, Hess. Port Phillip. 



Microhaliinus deflexifrons, Haswell. Port Phillip : Western 

 Port ; Wilson's Promontory. 



1 .Jour. Asiat. Soc. Beii''al, 189.'5-1900. 



