Report on the zoological collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean ...

CRTJ8TACEA. 237locality given by Hess as doubtfiil) at the time of the publication ofhis Australian Catalogue.80. Ocypoda ceratophthalma (Pallas).An adult female was collected at Friday Island on the beach(Xo. 154). A specimen is in the Museum collection from MoretonIsland, N. S. Wales. It is mentioned by Mr. Haswell as occurringat Cape Grenville, Palm Island, &c.81. Ocypoda kuhlii, De Haan.Five examples, males and females, were obtained on the beach atThursday Island (No. 167).An adult male from Shark Bay, W. Australia {Raijner, H.M.S.*Herald '), and possibly a small mutilated example from Nicol Bay,Australia (J/, du Boiilat/), belong here.ISr.'NV.For remarks upon the specimens of this and the foregoing speciesin the Museum collection, I may refer to my recent memoir * onthe genus. Both are widely distributed Oriental species. Sincethe publication of that paper, specimens ha^ e been- received fromTimor Laut (H. 0. Forbes) of 0. ceratophthalma.Haswell (Catalogue, p. 95) mentions the occurrence on the tropicalcoasts of 0. cordhnana, a species of which I have seen noexamples from Australia. Since he particulaily mentions the absenceof a stridulating ridge, there can be no doubt that his specimensbelonged to this species and not to 0. huhl'd.82. Macrophthalmus punctulatus. (Plate XXV. fig. A.)The carapace is nearly quadrate and relatively narrow, being butlittle broader than long ; the cervical suture is in its posterior partvery distinctly defined ; the surface is uneven, punctulated, withoutspines or tubercles, but clothed with a few scattered hairs, which aremore numerous, though not dense, on the postero-latcral parts of thebranchial regions ; the front is about one third of the total width ofthe anterior part of the carapace, with its anterior margin nearlystraight ; the antero-lateral margins are nearly straight and 3-toothed(the tooth at the external orbital angle included); the posteriorlateral tooth is very small. The male postabdominal segments areall of them distinct. The first two joints of the slender antennalpeduncle are contained within the large inner orbital hiatus ; theepistome is transverse and very short, almost linear : the merusjointof the outer maxillipedes is truncated at its distal end, andnearly as large as the preceding joint. The chclipcdes (for so smalla specimen) are well developed and are subequal : merus and carpusare smooth, without spines or tubercles, merus more or less hairyon its inner surface and upper margin ;the palm is but little longer* Ann. k Mag. Nat. Hist. eer. 5, x. p. 384, pi. xrii. fig. H (1882).