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locality given by Hess as doubtful) at the time of the publication of 

 his Australian Catalogue. 



80. Ocypoda ceratophthalma (Pallas). 



An adult female was collected at Friday Island on the beach 

 (No. 154). A specimen is in the Museum collection from Moreton 

 Island, N. S. Wales. It is mentioned by Mr. HasweU as occurring 

 at Cape GrenviUe, Palm Island, &c. 



81. Ocypoda, kuhlii, Be Haan. 



Five examples, males and females, were obtained on the beach at 

 Thursday Island (No. 167). 



An adult male from Shark Bay, W. Australia {Hayner, H.M.S. 

 ' Herald '), and possibly a small mutilated example from Niool Bay, 

 N.W. Australia (M. du Boulay), belong here. 



For remarks upon the speoiinens of this and the foregoing species 

 in the Museum collection, I may refer to my recent memoir * on 

 the genus. Both are widely distributed Oriental species. Since 

 the publication of that paper, specimens have been received from 

 Timor Laut {H. 0. Forbes) of 0. ceratopJithalma. 



Haswell (Catalogue, p. 95) mentions the occurrence on the tro- 

 pical coasts of 0. cordimana, a species of which I have seen no 

 examples from Australia. Since he particularly mentions the absence 

 of a stridulating ridge, there can be no doubt that his specimens 

 belonged to this species and not to 0. kuhlii. 



82, Macrophthalmus punctulatns. (Plate XXV. fig. A.) 



The carapace is nearly quadrate and relatively narrow, being but 

 little broader than long ; the cervical suture is in its posterior part 

 very distinctly defined ; the surface is uneven, punctulated, without 

 spines or tubercles, but clothed with a few scattered hairs, which are 

 more numerous, though not dense, on the postero-lateral parts of the 

 branchial regions ; the front is about one third of the total width of 

 the anterior part of the carapace, with its anterior margin nearly 

 straight ; the antero-lateral margins are nearly straight and 3- ■ 

 toothed (the tooth at the external orbital angle included); tlie posterior 

 lateral tooth is very small. The male postabdominal segments are 

 all of them distinct. The first two joints of the slender antennal 

 peduncle are contained within the large inner orbital hiatus ; the 

 epistome is transverse and very short, almost linear; the merus- 

 joint of the outer maxillipedes is truncated at its distal end, and 

 nearly as large as the preceding joint. The chelipedes (for so small 

 a specimen) are well developed and axe subequal ; merus and carpus 

 are smooth, without spines or tubercles, merus more or less hairy 

 on its inner surface and upper margin ; the palm is but little longer 



» Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, x. p. 384, pi. xyii. fig. 8 (1882). 



