inner margins near the hase (the teeth themselves generally appearing
crenulated when viewed with a lens of sufficient power), and_ there
are usually one or two spinules discernible on the hepatic region.
There are specimens in the British-Aluseum collection ohtained
between Cumberland Island and Slade Point, and from Port Jackson
(J. Alacqillivmy, H.Al.S. ‘ Rattlesnake ’), and others from Elinders
Island aud Shark Bay, AV. Australia (D.Jf.Daj/ner, H.Al.S. ‘ Herald’).
The specimens from Flinders Island and Shark Bay have, however,
the upper surface of the Avrist and palm of the chelipedes
much more strongly and distinctly spinulose, and may possibly prove
to be distinct.
Air. Haswell (Cat. p. 162) notes the possible identity of G. australiensis
with G. spinosorosti'is, Dana, from the Sandwich Islands, a
species somewhat insufficiently described. He has himself briefly
characterized a form, the distinctive characters of which may perhaps
not he sufficient to separate it from 0 . australiensis. G. corallicola,
from Port Alolle, scarcely differs from G. australiensis, except
in the absence of the gastric spinules, for the form of the chelae and
fingers is evidently a character liable to variation, according to the
sex and age of the individual.
I may note here th a t there is in the Aluseum coUection a specimen
from the Philippines perhaps belonging to the species briefly
charactei-ized by Haswell under the designation G. aculeata.
22. Galathea elegans.
Galathea elegans, White, List Crust. Brit. Mus. p. 66 (1847), descript,
nullâ ; Crust, in Voy. H.M.S. ‘ Samarang,' pi. xii. fig. 7 (1848) ;
Haswell, Cat. Austr. Crust, p. 163 (1882).
Here is referred, although with some hesitation, a specimen
from Albany Island, 3 -4 fms., first collection, and one from
Port Alolle, 14 fms., second collection. They differ from White’s
types of this species in the British-Aluseum coUection, from the
Philippines, Corregidor (Cuming), and Borneo, Unsang (H.M.S.
‘ Samarang ’), in the smaUer, more inconspicuous spinules of the
lateral margins of the rostrum. The chelipedes are somewhat more
elongated and slender than in a dried specimen which I take to be
a female of AVhite’s species, the fingers relatively shorter, and the
spinules of the carpus and penultimate joint smaUer and Avell nigh
concealed by the pubescence. The coloration, as depicted in the
figure cited," is of no value as a specific distinction, since not any
two specimens agree exactly in their markings. In the Bornean examples
they are much broader than in the Philippine specimens, from
one of which they are whoUy absent. In the specimen from Albany
Island they are distingnishahle only on the anterior part of the postahdomen.
The ground-colour in nearly all is dull red.
In the adult males of G. elegans (the type specimens of which have
never been described) the carapace is strigose, the strigæ ciliated, its
lateral margins armed w ith 8 or 9 prominent spinules; the rostrum is
elongated, narrow-triangular, as long, or nearly as long, as the carapace;
its lateral margin armed with about 8 spinules; the joints of the
chelipedes also spinulose and h airy ; fingers rather shorter than the
palm, minutely denticulated on their inner margins, not gaping when
closed, with the tips incurved ; the merus- and carpus-joints of the
first and second ambulatory legs are spinulose on their anterior margins
; and one of the denticnles of the inferior margin of the terminal
joint is more prominent than the others.
I f the Australian specimen does not belong to G. elegans, it may
be referable to G. longirostris, Dana*, from the Pijis, which is very
incompletely known, which it resembles in the minute serrulation ot
the carapace and rostrum and the shorter fingers of the chelipedes,
which are not, however, less than half the length of the palms, as in
Dana’s description. . . , , r n i-
In more than one of the specimens in the Aluseum coUection
the rostrum is slightly defiexed, and I think it probable that G. cle-
iieccifrons, Haswell (Cat. p. 163), from Albany Passage (77.M.N.
‘Alert'), should be regarded merely as a marked variety of G. elegans.
23. Munida spinulifera. (P la te XXXI. fig. B.)
This species is evidently nearly allied to Mumda japónica, Stimpson
; and it will suffice here to allude to the distinctive characters
and some other points not mentioned in Stimpson’s description. As
in M. japónica, the anterior p art of the gastric region is armed w ith
a transverse series of thirteen spinules. On the sides of the carapace
at a short distance behind the spine at the outer orbital angle,
IS us’uaUy a single small spinule (whereas Stimpson,_ in his descrip-
tiom of 717. japónica, says, “ Regio gástrica superficie utrinque tn -
spinulosa ”). On the front of the branchial regions, ju s t behind the
cervical suture, is another small spinule not mentioned by Air.
Stimpson. The lateral margins of the carapace have about seven
spinules, inclusive of the outer orbital spine, which is rather
^°^The median spine of the rostrum (in the specimens I have examined)
is considerably more than twice the length of the lateral
spines, and is arcuated, with scarcely any trace of lateral denticula-
tions The second postahdominal segment has several spinules on
its upper surface on the anterior margin. The merus carpus,
and penultimate joints of the ambulatory legs are spinulose; the
spinules on the penultimate joints usually developed only on the
posterior (or inferior) margins. r. r i a
Three specimens, of which one (the only one having a chelipede)
is a male, the two others females with ova, were obtained in the
Arafura Sea, 32-36 fms. (Xo. 160).
In the specimen of M. japónica from the Corean Straits, referred
to in my Report on Capt. St. John’s collectionf , not only are the
lateral frontal spines relatively much longer (half the length of the
* Crust, in U.S. Explor. Exped. xiii. p. 482, pi. xxx. fig. 11 (1852).
t Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 51 (1879).
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