ATJSTBALIAN MALACOSTEAOA. 101 



almost unarmed, and ornamented with crests on the carpopodite 

 and propodite. [M.S.] 

 Australia (Milne-Edwards). 



181. Heterograpsus octodentatus. A.M. 

 Oyclograpsus octodentatus, M.-Edw., Hist. Nat. Crust., t. ii., 



p. 80. 



Lateral borders of the carapace armed with four teeth, of 

 which the two last are very small. An oblique linear groove on 

 the hepatic and branchial regions. Orbits rather widely open 

 below, but not continued by a lateral groove. No crest on the 

 third joint of the external maxillipedes. Tarsi slightly spinous. 

 [M.-Edw.] 



King Island (Paris Mus.) ; Port Philip ; N. Coast of Tasmania 

 (Australian Museum). 



182. Heterograpsus maculatus. A.M. 

 Heterograpsus maculatus, M.-Edw., Ann. Sci. Nat. (3me serie), 



t. xx., p. 193 (1853) ; Miers, Cat. Crust. N.Z., p. 39 (1876). 



Very near the American H. marmoratus, but with the gastric 

 region more convex, and the epi-branchial lobes separated from 

 the meso-branchial by a transverse line curved very distinctly 

 in the shape of an S, and formed of a series of small pits. 

 Colour reddish. Arm with circular spots extending to the 

 fingers. [M.-E.] 



Pound also in New Zealand (and Polynesia?). 



G-enus Utica, ' White. 

 Carapace somewhat eight-angled, tabular, the latero-anterior 

 margin with three teeth ; the latero-posterior part of the carapace 

 oblique ; carapace behind very straight ; behind the middle there 

 is a very strong transverse ridge. Outer jaw-feet with the third 

 joint on the outside straight, not dilated. Eore-legs small ; 

 hind-legs very long ; tarsus not particularly dilated, somewhat 

 elongated. [White.'] 



183. Utioa setosipes. Plate ii., fig. 2. A.M. 

 Utica setosipes, Haswell, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. vi. 

 Surface of the carapace and ambulatory limbs covered with 



a very fine short pubescence. Eront not very prominent, straight. 



