50 CRUSTACEA FROiM PORT CURTIS DISTRICT, QUEENSLAND, 



The accompanying figure and description are taken from an 

 adult male dredged by the late Mr. J. Bracebridge Wilson off Port 

 Phillip Heads, Vic, in which the carapace including rostrum is 

 6"5mm. long, while the large cheliped has attained a length of 

 20mm. Specimens previously figured appear to have been either 

 females or immature males. 



Carapace broad with eight cross strife (and in some specimens 

 with intermediate lines) fringed with setse and scattered longer 

 hairs. There are 7-8 lateral spines and either one or two pairs 

 of gastric spinules. 



The rostrum is short, somewhat concave above, and carrying 

 short hairs. It is armed with a small median spine, which has 

 at its base on either side a small spinule. 



The antennae are very short and robust. 



The right cheliped of an old male is robust and greatly 

 developed, not very spiny, and rather thickly clothed with long 

 hairs. It is three times the length of the carapace, the palm 

 alone being nine-tenths as long. The finger is much shorter than 

 the palm and does not equal the carpus. There is a single large 

 tooth, the base of each of the fingers, which are much flattened 

 and incurved at the tips, giving to them the appearance of being 

 spoon-excavate. 



The ambulatory legs are normal. 



The ischium of the external maxillipeds has its inner and outer 

 distal angles produced into spines. The anterior ridge is finely 

 tuberculate, but is not spinose. The merus has one spine only 

 on its inner border, and its outer distal angle is sharply produced. 

 All the joints bear fine hairs. 



From the original description, some of our specimens and those 

 taken by the " Thetis " differ in not having the carapace 

 *' comparatively smooth," and in having a single pair of spines 

 on the gastric region. 



Galathea elegans Adams &, White. (Plate iv. figs.6, 6«). 



1848. Galathea elegans Ad. & White, Crust, in Voy. " Samarang," 



p. II, pl.xii. fig.7. 

 1882. Galathea eleyana Haswell, Cat. Aust. Crust, p. 163. 



