208 COLLECTIONS FROM MELAITESIA. 



37. Galeae granulata. (Plate XX. fig. A.) 



Carapace narrower in proportion to its length, than Oalene bispi- 

 nosa, Herbst, the whole of the upper surface granulated, the 

 granules, however, somewhat unevenly disposed ; the cervical and 

 oardiaco-branchial sutures are distinctly defined. In G. hispinosa 

 (Herbst) the carapace is granulated only near the lateral margins. 

 The two median teeth of the front are distinctly developed, but the 

 two lateral teeth (those over the inner orbital hiatus) are obsolete ; 

 these teeth are very distinct in Galene hispinosa (Herbst). The 

 antero-lateral margins have three distinct tuberculiform teeth ; 

 there are but two developed in 0. hispinosa ; the palms of the 

 chelipedes are granulated over the whole of their outer surface, 

 whereas in Q. hispinosa the granulations esist only at the base, 

 near the articulation with the wrist. 



Of G. granulata there is but one specimen in the collection, a 

 small male from Port Darwin, 7-12 fms. (No. 173). 



The characters enumerated above, important though they may 

 appear, may possibly be found to be dependent on the age and size 

 of the specimen, the length of whose carapace is only 6^ lines 

 (11| millim.), less than one fourth of the length of an adiilt ex- 

 ample of G. hispinosa from Singapore {A. R. Wallace) in the 

 Museum collection, and which is the only specimen I have examined; 

 but I do not feel justified in uniting the two forms in the absence 

 of any specimens with transitional characters. Both the specimens 

 of G. hispinosa and of G. granulata are imperfect, that of G. hispi- 

 nosa having lost the postabdomen, and that of G. granulata all ex- 

 cept one of the ambulatory legs. 



38. Halimede ? coppingeri. (Plate XX. fig. B.) 



In this curious little species the carapace is anteriorly somewhat 

 defiexed, with the antero-lateral margins somewhat shorter than 

 the postero-lateral ; body and legs are alike covered with a close 

 velvety pubescence. The sulci defining the regions of the carapace 

 are indistinguishable; the carapace is tuberculated, the tubercles 

 rather large, and arranged in rather irregular transverse series. 

 The front is divided by a median notch into two rather prominent 

 rounded lobes, on either side of which the exterior angles form less 

 prominent teeth. The upper orbital margin has a large blunt 

 tubercle behind the outer frontal lobes. The antero-lateral margins 

 have four very distinct tuberculiform teeth, the first of which is 

 situated immediately behind the exterior angle of the orbit.' The 

 epistoma is transverse, the pterygostomian regions' without spines 

 or tubercles. The postabdomen in the female has all the segments 

 distract. The eye-peduncles are short and robust ; the antennules 

 nearly transversely folded ; the basal antennal joint reaches beyond 

 the subfrontal process, and thus enters within the inner orbital 

 hiatus ; the two following joints are slender ; the flagellum filiform 

 and rather long. The merus-joint of the outer maxiUipedes is, as 



