Art. VL — Some little knoivn Victorian DecaiJod Crus- 

 tacea with Description of a New Species. 



By S. W. FULTON and R E. GRANT. 



(With Plate Y.) 

 [Bead 8th August, 1901]. 



Although considerable attention has been paid to the carcino- 

 logical fauna of the more tropical coasts of Australia, little has so 

 far been done on the marine Crustacea of Victoria. 



A paper by Dr. Kinnahan,^ read before the Royal Dublin 

 Society in 1858, recorded the existence of sixteen species from 

 Port Phillip, but these were apparently overlooked by Professor 

 Haswell'- in his Catalogue of Australian Crustacea in which his 

 records of Victorian habitats are by no means adequate. 

 Professor McCoy^ has also described and figured a few of our 

 well-known marine forms, and in the Report of the Voyage of 

 the "Challenger,"^ a number of other species which were 

 dredged in the vicinity of our shores are noted. With these 

 exceptions, however, there has been no attempt at serious work 

 on our marine Decapoda, and we hope that at some subsequent 

 date we may be able to give some additional notes which will be 

 of assistance in an endeavour to make up a census of this part of 

 our fauna. 



Tribe — Cydometopa. 



Family — Portiinidae. 



Carcinus maenas, Linn. 



Linnaeus. Fauna Suecica, p. 492. 



Pennant. Brit. Zool. iv., p. 3., pi. iii., fig. 5. 



1 Journal of the Royal Dublin Society, vol. i., 1858. 



2 Catalogue of the Australian Stalk- and Sessile-eyed Crustacea, 18S2. 



3 Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria, 1878-1890. 



4 Reports of the Scientific Results of the Exploring Voyage of H.M.S. " Challenger." 



