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inner margins near the base (the teeth themselves generally appearing 

 crenulated when viewed with a lens of sufficient power), and there 

 are usually one or two spinules discernible on the hepatic region. 



There are specimens in the British-Museum collection obtained 

 between Cumberland Island and Slade Point, and from Port Jackson 

 (J. Macgillivray, II. M.S. • Rattlesnake'), and others from Flinders 

 Island and Shark Pay, W. Australia (F.M.Rayner, H.1LS. ' Herald'). 

 The specimens from Flinders Island and Shark Pay have, how- 

 ever, the upper surface of the wrist and palm of the chelipedes 

 much more strongly and distinctly spinulose, and may possibly prove 

 to be distinct. 



Mr. Haswell (Cat. p. 162) notes the possible identity of G. aus- 

 traliensis with G. spinosorostris, Dana, from the Sandwich Islands, a 

 species somewhat insufficiently described. He has himself briefly 

 characterized a form, the distinctive characters of which may per- 

 haps not be sufficient to separate it from G. australiensis. G. coral- 

 licola, from Port Molle, scarcely differs from G. australiensis, except 

 in the absence of the gastric spinules, for the form of the chelae and 

 fingers is evidently a character liable to variation, according to the 

 sex and age of the individual. 



I may note here that there is in the Museum collection a speci- 

 men from the Philippines perhaps belonging to the species briefly 

 characterized by Haswell under the designation G. aculeata. 



22. Galathea elegans. 



Galathea elegans, White, List Crust. Brit. Mus. p. 66 (1847), descript. 

 nulla ; Crust, in Voy. H.M.S. ' Samarang,' pi. xii. fig. 7 (1848) ; 

 Haswell, Cat. Austr. Crust, p. 163 (1882). 



Here is referred, although with some hesitation, a specimen 

 from Albany Island, 3-4 fms., first collection, and one from 

 Port Molle, 14 fms., second collection. They differ from White's 

 types of this species in the British-Museum collection, from the 

 Philippines, Corregidor (Cuming), and Borneo, Unsang (H.M.S. 

 'Samarang'), in the smaller, more inconspicuous spinules of the 

 lateral margins of the rostrum. The chelipedes are somewhat more 

 elongated and slender than in a dried specimen which I take to be 

 a female of White's species, the fingers relatively shorter, and the 

 spinules of the carpus and penultimate joint smaller and well nigh 

 concealed bv the pubescence. The coloration, as depicted in the 

 figure cited, is of no value as a specific distinction, since not any 

 two specimens agree exactly in their markings. In theBorueau ex- 

 amples they are much broader than in the Philippine specimens, from 

 one of which they are wholly absent. In the specimen from Albany 

 Island they are distinguishable only on the anterior part of the post- 

 abdomen. The ground-colour in nearly all is dull red. 



In the adult males of G. elegans (the type specimens of which have 

 never been described) the carapace is strigose, tbe strigas ciliated, its 

 lateral margins armed with 8 or 9 prominent spinules; the rostrum is 

 elongated, narrow-triangular, as long, or nearly as long, as the cara- 



