6 Fulton and Grant: 



Miers (loc. cit.), wliose specimen has also been examined by one 

 of us, was incorrectly so identitied by that author. 



C. coppingeri was described from Port Molle, Q., and has since 

 been taken by one of us near the Port Curtis, Q. This form 

 appears to be confined to more tropical waters and is replaced in 

 cooler latitudes by C spatulifer. C. coppingeri, which has in 

 consequence of Miers' incorrect figure, been more that once 

 identified as occurring in Victoria must therefore now Ije 

 removed from our list. 



We may here draw attention to a discrepancy in Haswell's 

 description of 0. spatulifer in which he states that it has: — "Two 

 long subacute spines on each branchial region, the anterior 

 directe<l outwards, upwards and backwards," which should read : 

 two long subacute spines on each branchial region directed out- 

 wards and upwards, the anterior forward and the posterior 

 liackward. 



Leptomithrax australiensis. Miers. 



L. australiensis, Miers. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1875 



(4), 27, p. 220. 

 L. spinulosus, Haswell. Proc. i^inn. Soc. N.S.W., 1880, 

 vol. 4, p. 441, pi. 26, fig. 3. 

 An examination of the types of the above — the tirst of which 

 is in the British Museum of Natural History, and the .second in 

 the Australian Museum, Sydney — enables us to say tliey are 

 synonomous. This view is upheld by a memorandum in the 

 liandwriting of the late Mr. E. J. Miers attached to specimens in 

 the British Museum received in exchange from Sydney. 



The .species is not uncommon at moderate depths in Port 

 Phillip and Western Port, ' and large specimens from Bass 

 Strait are occasionally exhibited for sale in the iish shops. 



Tribe — Cyclometopa. 



Family — Xanthidae. 



Sub-family — -Xafithiftae. 



Cycioxanthus {?) punctatus, Haswell. (PI. III.). 



Haswell. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1882, vol. 6, p. 752. 

 Haswell. Cat. Au.st. Cru.st., 1882, p. 50. 



