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KJVEtt LOBSTEUS, 



tlip anhnal is sccurfd.* TIic |kiihIs in wliich 

 the lol>sters are tiikoii nrv. always Full of water, 

 being supplied by s])rings ; uue ot* tliem was 

 about fifty yards in length by twenty in treadtb, 

 but tjf no gmt <te|sj}h at my fati They fmm 

 a chain mfong the plains during the dry season 

 of the year ; Ijiit (hiriiit^f lieavy rains they unite 

 into a runiiiug stream, which empties itself into 

 the Xas It h mlf jat flie season, when 



iflim % mMf cbltiin of pm^ or swamps, 

 with but little water, that the lobsters can he 

 qanght with facility. 



In the Murrumbidgee, Yas, Tumat, and other 



* largest spedmen injured — 



Indti 



Lengtli of the body 4^ 



Length of the daw . * • « r ^ 



Breadth of tlie shield . , . . . 1| 



Breadth of the claw . < « . * 



Breadth of expanded tail , . . • 1| 



Length of the ^teifior antennae * . • 4f 



Length of ^«^steei«timt«^»»flK . . « l| 



The colour of the u[>])cr part of the body, in the lar^t.' spe- 

 cip€9iit^ was brownish green ; die upper part of the claws 

 hhi@t9h gte6% occasionally mottled ; tiftdef sUTftifce, wMdsh ; 

 joints, red. Tlu- siiuiller specimens had the upper surface of 

 the body of u dark green colour, cluws bhieish green and 

 mottled : several of the females had a quantity of ov«: in the 

 itetia] situattoti. 



