54 AUSTRALIAN MALACOSTRACA. 



Carapace convex, the regions distinct. Front prominent and 

 formed of two large flattened and truncated lobes, external to 

 which, is a large rounded tubercle which occupies the internal 

 orbital angle. Orbits armed with four, teeth, one above, one at 

 the external angle, and two below. Antero-lateral borders pretty 

 strongly curved, reaching the plane of the cardiac region, 

 and obscurely divided into four lobes, each ornamented with a 

 strong rounded tooth, recurved forwards ; the two middle lobes 

 present in addition two or three smaller teeth, so that the total 

 number is at least eight on each side. Ambulatory legs armed 

 with spines above. 



Torres Straits (Brit. Museum). A widely distributed species. 



87. Btisus laevimanus. A.M 

 Etisus Icevimanus, Eandall, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 



viii., p. 115 ; Dana, U.S. Explor. Exped., Crust., i., p. 185, pi. x., 

 fig. 1. 



Carapace broad, distinctly but lightly areolate, front between 

 the outer antennae nearly straight, thin, not deflexed ; antero- 

 lateral margin with five broad teeth, teeth not very prominent, 

 the second very obtuse. Anterior feet stout, hand on upper and 

 outer sides smooth ; following pairs of feet compreseed, fourth, 

 fifth, and sixth joints spinuloso-granulate above. 



Holborn Island, near Port Denison, on coral reef. Pound 

 also in Piji, the Sandwich Islands, etc. 



Genus Chlorodopsis, A. M.-Edw. 



Carapace not very broad, depressed, regions well marked in 

 front, antero-lateral borders shorter than the postero-lateral, or 

 equal to them, and armed with spines ; flagellum of the antennae 

 inserted under the front, and excluded from the orbit by a 

 prolongation of the basilar joint, which fills the hiatus. Anterior 

 border of the third joint of the external maxillipedes excavated ; 

 legs spinulous ; fingers spoon-excavate. 



88. Chlorodopsis areolatus. 



Chlorodius areolatus, M.-Edw., Hist. Nat. Crust., i., p. 400. 

 ? Misodes coslatus, Dana, U. S. Explor. Exped., Crust., i., 

 p. 188, pi. is., fig. 4. 



