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Antero-lateral margin with five wide teeth. Front with four 

 small teeth, the middle ones more prominent than the lateral. 

 Wrist with a spine at its antero-internal angle. Hand strongly 

 carinate, the carinas granulous, with a small spine above the 

 middle finger on the inner side. Colour yellowish, with very- 

 close purple punctuations on the hinder part of the branchial 

 and hepatic regions. 



Port Jackson, etc. Found also in New Zealand, the Indian 

 and Japanese Seas, and the Coast of China. 



Family V. TFLPHUSIDJS. 

 General shape of the carapace as in the Qrapsoidea. Front 

 broad. Borders arched. Inhabitants of fresh water. 



Genus Telphtjsa, Latr. 

 Third joint of the external maxillipedes sub-quadrate, much 

 shorter than the second, the fourth joint inserted at its internal 

 apical angle. 



146. Telphusa transversa. A.M. 



Telphusa transversa, E. von Martens, Monatsber. Akad. Wiss. 

 Berl., 1868, p. 609. 



Carapace notably broader than long, swollen, thickly punctate, 

 with only faint traces of a post-frontal crest. Frontal border 

 only slightly concave in the middle. Behind the dentiform 

 external orbital angle only one small blunt tooth ; the rest of 

 the lateral border scarcely notably carinated ; the oblique grooves 

 begin in the middle of its length. Abdomen of the male 

 narrowing tolerably regularly; the ante-penultimate joint with 

 converging, and only the penultimate with parallel lateral 

 borders ; the last joint somewhat broader than long. Hands 

 without furrows at ridges ; a few obscure tubercles on the upper 

 border of the palmar portion ; the impressed points on the sides 

 of the fingers arranged in longitudinal rows. Fingers not 

 gaping. [F. von M.~] 



Cape York (Darnel) ; Thursday Isld. (W. A. H.) 



Family VI. GONOBLACIDJE. 

 Carapace transverse. Front longer than the fourth part of 

 the breadth of the carapace, little deflexed, lamellate. Internal 



