28 ATTSTKAITAN MALACOSTRACA. 



spine above and in front, and a compressed spine behind. 

 Anterior legs in the male as long as the post-frontal region of 

 the carapace ; third joint with four small teeth on its upper 

 surface, the terminal one rather longer than the others ; hand 

 compressed, smooth ; fingers half the length of the hand, inner 

 edges armed with teeth in their distal half. Second pair of legs 

 a little longer than the first pair ; third joint armed above with 

 a row of half-a-dozen small tubercles ; third joint of the two 

 following pairs with two or three tubercles ; that of the last pair 

 smooth. 



Port Darwin (Macleay Museum) ; "Woodlark Islands (Aus- 

 tralian Museum). 



45. Tiarinia spinosirostris. 



Tiarania sp. ? Haswell, Proc. Linn. Soe. N.S.W., Tol. iv., 

 p. 448. 



Carapace ornamented above with numerous mammiform 

 tubercles which become elongated into short spines towards the 

 lateral and posterior borders. Kostral cornua long, closely 

 approximated in the greater part of their length, divergent at the 

 tips, each armed externally with three acute spines projecting 

 outwards and slightly forwards — the central one the longest. 

 Upper orbital margin with a curved sub-acute spine at its 

 anterior extremity. Anterior legs having the arm ornamented 

 with a row of five prominent tubercles on its upper border, 

 an irregular row of small flattened tubercles on its outer surface, 

 and two or three on the under surface ; wrist and hand smooth ; 

 fingers meeting throughout nearly their whole extent, toothed, 

 spoon-excavate. Third joints of the ambulatory limbs ornamented 

 above with prominent tubercles ; fourth joint of the first pair 

 with a short tooth at its anterior and distal angle, that of the 

 following pairs each with four low tubercles above. 



Cape Grenville ; Darnley Island, Torres Straits (Macleay 

 Museum.) 



46. Tiarinia. cornigera. 



Pisa cornigera, Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust., t. i., p. 335; 

 Adams and White, " Samar." Crust., p. 18. 



