NOTES ON A FEW AUSTRALIAN EDRIOPHTHALMATA. 

 By Charles Chilton, M.A. 

 [Plates XLVI. and XLVII.] 



This short paper contains some notes on a few species of 

 Australian Edrioplithalmata, collected early in Janviarj of this 

 year. Two species are from Coogee Bay, the others were taken 

 from seaweed, &c., growing on the rocks exposed at low tide near 

 the point known as Lady Macquarie's Chair, in Sydney harbour. 

 I also append references to some remarks already published on a 

 few Australian species that I have also taken in New Zealand. 



Allorchestes crassicornis. Haswell. 

 [Plate XLYL, fig. 1.] 



Cat. Aust. Crust., p. 223 ; Proc. Linn. Soc, N. S. Wales, IV., 

 p. 252, PI. VIL, tig. 5. 



One male and several female specimens were taken on stones in 

 rock-pools at Coogee Bay, in company with Philougria marina. 

 The male agrees fairly well with Mr. Haswell's description, but 

 the inferior antennae are not '•' very stout ;" the superior antennae 

 slightly exceed in length the peduncle of the lower, thus agreeing 

 with Mr. Haswell's figure ; in the description he says " superior 

 antennse exceeding in length the first and second segments of the 

 peduncle of the inferior pair," which must be a mistake since the 

 first three segments of the peduncle of the inferior antennae are 

 very short in almost all the Amphipoda. 



The female of this species does not appear to have been yet 

 described ; it differs from the male chiefly in the form of the 

 second pair of gnathopoda. The first pair of gnathopoda 



