418 ox THE STOMATOPODA AXD MACRURA BROUGHT BY 



antennular stalk subequal, first joint somewhat longer than either, stylocerite equal to 

 the first joint; stalk of second antenna longer than that of the first, scale bearing a 

 strong spine, equal to the antennular stalk, long fringed; thii-d maxilliped large, covered 

 with long hairs, projecting beyond the antennular stalk ; larger leg of the first paii- 

 with the lower border notched but the upper only very faintly so, fingers less than halt 

 the length of the palm, %\Tist short, somewhat excavated, meropodite broad, with lai-ge 

 distal spine and distal end excavated, hand hairy; smaller leg of the first pair with hand 

 elongate, bearing a spine above the movable finger, hairy, fingers equal to the palm, 

 wrist short, with a spine on the outside, meropodite of the same form as in the larger 

 hand, but with the spine smaller and the distal end excavate ; second pair of legs with 

 the first joint of the wrist the longest, 2 and 5 equal, 3 and 4 short, hand about equal 

 to first wrist-joint; remaining legs without a spine on the meropodite, the propodite 

 armed with spines, the dactyle biunguiculate, one-third the length of the propodite; the 

 exopodite of the uropod larger than the endopodite, the latter larger than the telson, 

 which is hairy above." 



Length 11 "5 mm. 



One ? from the Engineer Group, British Xew Guinea. 



Tribe. LORICATA. 



Family. Palinuridae. 



Genus. Panidirus White, 1S47. 



43. Panulirus demani nom. nov. 



PanuUrus polyphagus, Ortmaun, in Semen's " Forschuugsreisen in Austral.," Y. 1, 

 p. 19 (1894). 



Panulirus sp., de Man, Zool. Jahrb. IX. Syst. p. .507 (1898). 



There is no evidence for the view that this is a young form of P. poli/phaffus, 

 and it is therefore well that it should receive at least a provisional name. It is here 

 proposed to call the species Panulirus demani after the author who first recognised 

 its distinctness. 



One (/, from Blanche Bay, New Britain. 



44. Panuli7-us bispinosus sp. u. 



A small specimen in the collection seems to deserve a name and a short diagnosis 

 as a probably new species. It bears a considerable resemblance to P. femoristriga 

 v. Martens, 1872, of which it may possibly be a young example, but the abdominal 

 furrows are interrupted in the middle line, and the antennal tergite is quite smooth, 

 save for two spines towards the anterior edge. P. femoristriga probably also occurs 

 in the Loyalty Islands, since Dr Willey took, but did not preserve, a large Palinurid 

 which from his description would seem to belong to that species. 



Diagnosis : — " A Panulirus with the stalk of the first antenna somewhat shorter 

 than that of the second, the first joint longer than the second or thii-d, the third some- 



