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Pinnoteres subglobosa, n. sp. 



The body is soft, subglobose, or slightly quadrate owing 

 to the swollen body, the pleon loaded with ova having a 

 greater bulk than the thorax, destitute of hairs except on 

 the margin of the sternal plastron, which limits the pleon 

 anteriorly, and a few on the lower margins of the palms of 

 the chelipeds. 



The carapace is very convex, much depressed anteriorly, 

 the front truncate, and very scarcely in advance of the eyes, 

 nearly straight and less than one-third the width of the cara- 

 pace. The pleon is very large and cup-like, and slightly um- 

 bonate medianly. 



The orbits and fossettes are smaller than those of the pre- 

 ceding species, and the septum between the fossettes is thicker. 



The eyes are almost destitute of pigment. 



The buccal frame and external maxillipeds also are simi- 

 lar in shape to the preceding species, except that in the max- 

 illipeds the propodus is less expanded and setose, the dac- 

 tylus also is wanting. 



The chelipeds are slender, not much more robust than the 

 ambulatory legs, scarcely compressed ; the merus is cylindri- 

 cal and curved, the carpus not much shorter than it, the palm 

 widens slightly in the vertical direction towards the clistal 

 end. The fingers are rather more than half as long as the 

 palm, slightly gaping, scarcely hooked, with very small teeth, 

 and one or two larger ones near the proximal ends. 



The ambulatory legs do not differ much in length, the 

 first pair is rather shorter than the chelipeds, the dactyli are 

 strongly curved. 



The ova are small and very numerous. 



This species was found in pectens. 



Dredged by Dr. Verco, 17 fathoms, S.A. coast. 



Order, BRACHYURA, PRIMIGENIA. or DROMIACEA. 

 Tribe, DROMIIDEA. 



Family, Dromiid^. 

 Genus, Dromia, Fabr. 

 Dromia octodentata, Haswell. PI. xxiii., fig. 4. 

 Dromia octodentata, Plaswell, Cat. Aust. Crupt.. p. 140. 

 I find in this species that the characteristic teeth of the 

 antero-lateral border are variable in position, and that fre- 

 quently there is an extra tuberculiform tooth just anterior 

 to the last, but in the same slightly-curved line with the 

 others. 



The bodv is covered with a very harsh tomentum of barb- 



