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denticles. The inner margin of the merus has two prominent 

 spines, and the outer is triserrate, as is that of the carpus. The 

 merus has setose scales on its upper surface, and from the joints 

 there spring long hairs. 



After careful comparison of a good series from Queensland and 

 from Port Jackson, N.S.W., with the four type specimens of G. 

 corallicola in the Australian Museum, we are left without doubt 

 that the suggestion of Miers that the above two species are 

 identical is correct. It has already been pointed out by White- 

 legge (loc. cit.) that Haswell's statement that the spinules are 

 absent on the gastric region is mistaken, while a large series like 

 that before us amply shows that the other characters relied on 

 for differentiating the two species, viz., " having the frontal 

 region rather narrow, the eyes longer and the hands both longer 

 and broader and with very few spines " are highly variable and 

 consequently unimportant for systematic use. 



We cannot, however, fall in with the view put forward by 

 Miers (loc. cit.), and subsequently adopted by Henderson,* that 

 our species is identical with G. spinosirostris Dana, from which 

 it differs in the conformation of the chelipeds and in the armature 

 of the outer maxilliped, the latter a character of recognised specific 

 value. 



The species occurs on the Victorian coast, and has been taken 

 by one of us off Port Phillip Heads, f 



The specimen figured is a male from Port Jackson. 



Galathea whiteleggii, nom.nov. (Plate iv. figs. 2, 2a). 



1900. Galathea sp. Whitelegge, Mem. Aust. Mus. iv. Pt.2, p.191. 

 Type (imperfect) taken by the S.S. "Thetis" in 54-59 fathoms 

 off Wata Mooli, N.S.W. Another specimen (perfect) is in the 

 Australian Museum from Port Jackson. The species does not 

 occur in our Queensland collection. 



Henderson, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. (2) Zool. Vol.v. p. 431, 1893. 

 t Sayce, Vict. Nat. Vol.xviii. p. 155, 1902. 



