CRUSTACKA — WHITELEGOE. 187 



OALATHEA MAGNIFICA, Haswell. 



Gtilathea maqnifiaa, Huswell, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.8.W., vi., 1882, 

 p. 761 ;' Aust. Mas. Cat. v., Crust., 1882, p. 1G2, sp. 30G. 



Station 30. 



A single female example of this pretty species was obtained off 

 Botany Bay, at a depth of 43 fathoms. On looking up the type 

 some little difficulty was experienced from the fact that the label 

 on the bottle had been destroyed. As, however, this was the 

 only bottle unlabelled without name or locality it appeared 

 likely that it contained the missing type or types from which the 

 desci'iption was drawn. The bottle is of a peculiar kind which 

 was largely used for storing other type specimens by the author 

 of the Catalogue of Crustacea. 



The examples agree with the brief description, and some exhibit 

 slight traces of the " brilliant purple stripe down the centre of 

 the carapace." 



The following description is drawn from the " Thetis " example, 

 and supplemented by frequent reference to the numerous speci- 

 mens from Broughton Islands : — 



Carapace with about eight or nine strise, fringed with rather 

 long hairs ; each segment of the pleon has two rows of similar 

 setae, one on the anterior margin and the other situated in a 

 central transverse groove ; the hairs are everywhere somewhat 

 patent, and give the body a villose appearance, which is quite 

 characteristic, and very different from that of any other species 

 in the Museum collection. 



The rostrum is 1-8 mm. long, and 1-4 mm. wide at the base ; 

 the sides have three pairs of spines which are subequal in length ; 

 the terminal spine measures 0-5 mm., and exceeds the distal pair 

 by 0*3 mm. ; each inner angle of the front terminates in a small 

 spine situated at the base of the rostrum, and another one exists 

 on each outer angle The lateral margins of the carapace have six 

 spines, the first and fourth being slightly larger than the others; each 

 side of the carapace has a small lateral spine situated in a transverse 

 line with the first lateral spine, about twice its own length from 

 the latter, and the same distance or more from the spine on the 

 outer angle of the frontal margin. The gastric area bears a pair 

 of small widely separated spinules situated a short distance 

 behind the base of the rostrum, and in a line with the tips of the 

 median pair of rostral spines. 



Basal joints of first antennre a little longer than broad, armed 

 distally with three large outwardly inclined spines, one on the 

 outer angle and two near the inner, between which the second 

 joint takes its origin. 



