AUSTBAIiIAN MALACOSTBACA. 141 



of the carpus ; hand with a row of about half-a-dozen granules 

 above. Length lj in. ; breadth If in. 

 Adelaide (Australian Museum). 



268. Dromia soulpta. 

 Dromia sculpta, Haswell, 1. c. 



Carapace about as broad as long, ornamented, as well as the 

 limbs, with numerous rounded granules, but free from con- 

 spicuous hairs ; gastric and anterior branchial and hepatic 

 regions very prominent, tuberculated, each of the tubercles 

 capped with a group of granules. Pront very prominent, with 

 three teeth, of which the mesial is the smallest, is triangular and 

 sub-acute, directed slightly downwards, but quite visible when 

 the carapace is viewed from above ; lateral teeth each with an 

 accessory denticle on its outer border (representing the supra- 

 orbital tooth). External orbital and infra-orbital teeth rudi- 

 mentary. Carpus of chelipedes with two prominent conical 

 spines near the distal end of its upper surface ; three similar 

 spines or teeth on the upper surface of the hand, two close 

 above the insertion of the dactylus, the third at the proximal 

 end. Merus, carpus, and propodos of ambulatory limbs orna- 

 mented with a few short blunt spines or tubercles, and with a 

 few scattered short hooked hairs. Segments of the abdomen 

 (except the last) each ornamented with four compressed tubercles, 

 Length of carapace tV in. 



Port Jackson, in a few fathoms of water ; Port Stephens. 



269. Dromia conohifera. Plate iii., fig. 4. 

 Dromia concMfera, Haswell, 1. e. 



Carapace longer than broad, nearly flat above, very slightly 

 convex. Lateral borders entire with the exception of a small 

 tooth situated some distance in front of the transverse groove, 

 and separating a convex antero-lateral portion from a longer 

 postero-lateral portion, which is slightly concave in front and 

 slightly convex posteriorly. Front tridentate, bordered with 

 minute granules, the mesial tooth excessively minute, the 

 lateral teeth dorso-ventrally compressed, triangular, acute ; well 

 developed supra-orbital and infra-orbital teeth. Under surface of 

 the body and limbs rather closely covered with granules. Carpus 



