562 Transactions. 



Halimus spinosus Hess. 



Halimus spinosus Hess, Arcliiv. fiir Nat., 1865, p. 129, pi. 6, fig. 1, 1865 ; 



Haswell, Cat. Aiist. Crust., p. 6, 1882 ; McCulloch, Rec. Aiist. Mus., 



7, p. 53, 1908, Halimus truncatipes Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 



• ser. 5, 4, p. 3, 1879 ; Baker, Trans. Roy. Soc. S.Aust., 29, p. 120, 



pi. 22, figs. 2, 2a, 1905. 



One male with carapace 27 mm. long from rock-pools. Sunday Island 

 (Ciiptain Bollons) ; two smaller males from Meyer Island (W. R. B. Oliver) ; 

 and one female with carapace 23 mm. long from Coral Bay, Sunday Island 

 (T. Iredale). 



These specimens agree closely with the description given by Miers for 

 //. truncatipes, and undoubtedly belong to the same species as the specimen 

 described by him ; they also agree with the short description of H. spinosus 

 given by Hess as quoted by Haswell, and I follow Haswell in considering 

 these two species probably identical. According to Miers, //. truncatipes 

 differs from H. spinosus by the much more squarely truncated joints 

 of the ambulatory legs. In my female specimen, and particularly in 

 the very small male specimen, these joints are less squarely truncated 

 than in the large male, and the character is doubtless one that varies 

 with the age of the specimen. The tubercles on the carapace agree 

 very closely with the description given by Miers, and nearly all of them 

 bear a number of yellow hooked or curved hairs. These are mentioned 

 by Hess, but not by Miers, who only says that the legs are clothed 

 with long fulvous hairs. In a dried specimen nearly all these hairs 

 came away with the seaweeds when these were removed to expose the 

 surface of the carapace. The median spine on the posterior margin of 

 the carapace is moderately well marked in the female, but in the male 

 is represented only by a small tubercle tipped with yellow hairs. Miers 

 describes the cholipeds in the male as small ; in my specimens they are 

 somewhat swollen and smooth, w4th the fingers meeting only at the tip 

 when closed, as in //. laevis Haswell. Both specimens bear on the carapace 

 a number of seaweeds held by the curved hairs. 



[1 had written the above before I noticed that Mr. McCulloch had come 

 to the same conclusion as to the identity of these two species, and that 

 Mr. Baker also concuri'cd after comparing Sydney specimens with those at 

 first referred by him to //. truncatipes.'] 



Huenia proteus De Haan. 



Maja {Huenia) proteus De Haan, Faun. Japon., Crust., p. 95, pi. 23, figs. 4-6, 

 1839. Huenia proteus Haswell, Cat. Aust. Crust., p. 9, 1882 ; Alcock, 

 Journ. Asiatic Sec. Bengal, 64, p. 195, 1895 ; Miers, Coll. H.M.S. 

 " Alert," p. 191, 1884. 

 One small specimen, 5 mm. long, from Meyer Island, 12 fathoms, ap- 

 pears to be an immature female of this species. 



The species ranges from Japan and China southwards to the eastern 

 coast of Australia, and is also found at the Andamans, in the Indian Ocean. 



Schizophrys hilensis Rathbun. 

 Schizophrys hilensisH-Athhun. Bull. U.S. Fish. Commission for 1903, pt. 3, 

 p. 882, fig. 38, 1906. 

 I have several specimens from Coral Bay, Sunday Island, and from 

 Meyer Island, which must, I think, be referred to this species. They agree 



