94 AUSTRALIAN MAIiACOSTEACA. 



the ends they are curved and pointed, the inner border is 

 keeled. [Hess.] 



Sydney (Gottingen Museum). The locality of this and the 

 following species must be regarded as doubtful. 



165. Gelasimus variatus. 



Qelasiinus variatus, Hess, 1. c, p. 146, pi. vi., fig. 7. 



Carapace smooth, strongly arched. Front narrow between 

 the eyes. Large hand of the male somewhat longer than the 

 body is broad ; at the root of the immobile finger is a large 

 triangular impression ; immobile finger somewhat bent, the 

 thumb straight, both beset with tubercles on the inner borber. 

 Colour brownish with violet markings, or violet with bright 

 yellow markings. \_Hess,] 



Sydney (Grottingen Museum). 



Genus Octpoda, Pabr. 



Eyes thick, the cornea long, produced almost to the base of 

 the peduncle. Second joint of the external maxillipedes much 

 larger than the third. Anterior legs of the male unequal, the 

 smaller with pointed fingers. Abdomen narrow at the base. 

 Carapace transverse. [2).] 



166. Ocypoda ceratophthalma. A.M. 



Cancer ceratophthalma, Pallas, Spicil. Zool. fasc. 



Oocypo&a ceratophthalma, Pabr., Suppl., p. 247 (1798) ; Latr., 

 Hist. Nat. des Crust. ; Desmarest, Consid., p. 121, pi. xii., fig. 1; 

 De Haan, Pauna Japonica, Crust., p. 29 ; Milne-Edwards, Hist. 

 Nat. Crust., t. ii., p. 48 ; Atlas of the Regne Animal of Cuvier, 

 Crust., pi. rvii., fig. 1 ; Ann. des Sci. Nat. 3me serie, t. xviii., 

 p. 141. 



Terminal appendage of the eyes not setigerous, very long in 

 the male, almost as long as the cornea, obtuse at the end, and 

 extending far beyond the external orbital angle. Hands broad 

 and compressed, not spinous. 



Cape Grenville ; Palm Island, etc. 



