172 ATJSTBALIAIT MALACOSTBACA. 



very spinose, not tubereulated, but without median spines near 

 the base of the frontal cornua, and having laterally only very 

 small teeth on its anterior border. Abdomen smooth, finely- 

 punctate and without transverse grooves ; several small teeth at 

 the posterior part of the base of the lateral processes of the 

 second, third, fourth, and fifth abdominal segments. Colour 

 green, with small irregular whitish spots on the thorax, marblings 

 on the abdomen, and alternate rings of green and yellow on the 

 legs. Length 15 to 18 in. [M.-Udw.] 



Northern parts of the Australian Coast. Pound also in the 

 Samoa Islands, the Isle of Prance, and the " Seas of India." 



322. Palinurus penicillatus. 



Astaeus penicillatus, Olivier, Encycl., t. vi., p. 343. 



Palinurus penicillatus, Olivier, Encycl., t. vii., p. 674 ; 

 Desmarest, Consid., p. 186 ; Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. des 

 Crust, t. ii., p. 186. « 



Antennulary segment armed with four conical, very thick 

 teeth, divergent and united at their base. Carapace very 

 spinous, and ornamented with a large number of piliferous 

 tubercles, a few median spines on the gastric region. Peduncles 

 of the external antennae scarcely spinose below. Abdomen 

 punctate, the lateral processes with a single tooth behind at the 

 base ; a transverse piliferous groove towards the middle of each 

 segment. Colour greenish, passing into reddish-brown here and 

 there, and spotted with yellow ; the yellow spots of the abdomen 

 small, extremely numerous, and close together ; those of the 

 legs forming longitudinal bands. [Jf.-jB.] 



Northern portions of the Australian coast. Pound also in 

 the Indian Ocean. 



323. Palinurus Hugelii. A.M. 

 Palinurus Hugelii, Heller, Reise der Novara, Crust., p. 96, 



pi. viii. N 



? Palinurus tumidus Kirk, Trans. N.Z. Inst., Vol. xii., p. 314 

 (1879). 



Carapace a little narrowed anteriorly, convex and spinose 

 above, the spines prominent, acute, and directed forwards' and 

 upwards. Rostrum acute, spiniform, directed almost straight 



