On a Species o/ Palaemon /rom Sydney. 3G3 



EXPLANATION OF TIIE PLATES. 

 Plate XIV. 



Fig. 1. Mecynothrip» wallacei, gen. et sp. n., S , a, showing expansion 

 of wing3. 



Lateral view of fore-part of head. 



Antenna. 



Apex of fourth antennal joint, showing sense-cones. 



Prolongation of anterior thoracic angle. 



Jjet't fore leg from below. 



Intermediate leg (right) from above. 



Ninth abdominal segment and tube. 



Plate XV. 



Fiff. 9. Macrothrips papuensis, gen. et sp. n., S . Head, antennae, fore 



legs, and prothorax. 

 Fif/. 10. Ditto. Kight fore coxa from above. 

 Fiy. 11. Ditto. Apical prolongation of ninth abdominal segment, viewed 



from above (tube removed). 

 Fiy. 12. Macrothrips dubius, sp. n., 2 • Riglit fore leg from above. 

 Fiy. IS. Ditto. Right fore coxa from above. 

 Fiff. 14. Ditto. Tube. 

 Fiff. 15. Acanthothrips scmouineus, sp. n., c?. Head, antennae, fore legs, 



and prothorax. 



LIX. — Description of a Species of Palsemon from near 

 Sydney, probably either a neio Species or the Adult Form 

 of Palaemon (Eupalajinon) damCj Heller. I3j Dr. J. G. 

 DE Man, of lerseke (Holland). 



[Plate XVI.] 



? Palcemon dance, Heller, Crustaceen der Novara-Reise, 1865, 

 p. 120, pi. xi. fig. a. 



Palcemon ornatiis, Ilaswell, Catalogue of the Australian Stalk- 

 and Sessile-eyed Crustaceaj 16^2, p. 196 (nee Fal. orna- 

 tus, Oliv.) (teste McCulloch). 



Some time ago Mr. Allan II. McCulloch, of the Australian 

 Museum, Sydney, sent me a specimen of a species of the 

 genus Palamon from the neighbourhood of Sydney for 

 examination, with the remark that it was a good representative 

 of the species determined by Haswell as Pal. ornatus, Oliv. 

 According to McCulloch, it is not uncommon in Queensland 

 and New South Wales. 



Our species belongs to the subgenus Eupahtmon, and is 



