190 AUSTRALIAN, MALACOSTKACA. 



were Gdlathea deflexifrons, and an imdescribed species of Oymo- 

 thoid, the latter usually eseoncing itself iri-the alimentary canal 

 of its host, in which it remained buried with the exception of the 

 anterior third of its body. 



354. Alpheus Galathea. 



Alpheus Galathea, White, List Crust. Brit. Mus., p. 75 (1847); 

 Miers, Zool. Erebus and Terror, Crust., p. 5, tab. 4, fig. 4, (1875). 

 Port Essington. 



355. Alpheus Alope. 



Alpheus Alope, "White, List Crust. Brit. Mus., p. 75 (1817) ; 

 Miers, Zool. Erebus and Terror, p. 5, tab. 4, fig. 6. 



Port Stephens. 



Of this and the preceding species there is no description 

 extant ; the British Museum type specimens are in too bad a state 

 to be distinctively characterised, and the figures in the " Zoology 

 the Erebus and Terror " are not sufficient for determination. 

 The same holds good of A. Thetis of the same author. 



356. Alpheus Doto. 



Alpheus Doto, White, List Crust. Brit. Museum., p. 75 (1847); 

 Miers, 1. c, p. 5, pi. 4, fig. 5. 



Bostrum narrow, triangular, scarcely projecting beyond the 

 front of the carapace. Upper margins of the orbits with a 

 minute spine. Hands similar, the left the smallest. Eight hand 

 smooth, with scattered yellowish hairs, the lower margins straight, 

 entire, the upper convex ; fingers very small. First joint of the 

 carpus of the second pair of legs longer than .the second, the 

 second joint about as long as the third and fourth together. 

 [Miers.] 



Sir C. Hardy's Island (Brit. Mus.J 



357. Alpheus socialis. 



Alpheus socialis, Heller, Reise der Novara, Crust, p. 106, pi. 

 x., fig. 1. 



Bostrum very short, triangular, arising between the bases of 

 the eyes, separated from the orbit by a deep sulcus, its apex 

 scarcely reaching to the middle of the first joint of the peduncle 



