ATJS^Jt^I^ ^A^ACQSTB4CIA. 153 



External antennae with a long flagellum, the basal scale slender. 

 External maxillipedes rather large, distant from one another at 

 the base. Anterior legs unequal, the right the largest, fingers 

 not spoon-excavate at the tips. Eourth pair of ambulatory legs 

 scarcely subchelate. Abdomen unsymmetrical, soft, without 

 calcareous plates. 



288. Eupagurus sinuatus. 



Eupagv/rus sinuatus, Stimpson, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 

 Vol. x., sp. 348. 



Eostrif orm tooth acute, prominent. Eyes thick, shorter than 

 the aciculum, the corneas a little dilated, apices of the squamules 

 elongated. Eight chelipede not longer than the ambulatory 

 legs, short-pubescent, granulated ; carpus sub-triangular, the 

 internal margin spinose, the surface with a smooth median line ; 

 hand broad, armed with median and marginal series of spines in 

 the female, finger armed above with a median row of acute 

 tubercles. Left chelipede sub-trigonal, hirsute, and granulated, 

 the upper margin of the carpus spinose, hand not spinulose,, 

 with a sub-median obtuse carina. Merus of the chelipedes pro- 

 foundly excavated below, the margins provided with long cilia, 

 the external margin spinose. Feet of the second and third pairs 

 hirsute above, not spinulose, dactyli rather broad, not twisted, 

 armed with horny spinules. [Stimps.] 



Port Jackson. 



289. Eupagurus acantholepis. 



Hnpagurus acantholepis, Stimpson, 1. c, sp. 350. 



Eostriform tooth obsolete. Ophthalmic segment exposed, 

 provided with a sub-bifurcate squamule. Eyes slender, extending 

 beyond the peduncles of the antennas, not shorter than the 

 breadth of the front, curved outwards, the corneas not dilated ; 

 squamules rather small, bidentate at the apex. Aciculum small. 

 Eeet slender, clothed with scattered long hairs. Chelipedes 

 spinulose above (the right the larger), hands a little depressed, 

 spinules triserial ; carpi a little canaliculated above. Second 

 and third pairs of legs longer than the chelipedes ; dactyli not 

 contorted, compressed, almost falciform, with slender points 



