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Milne-Edwards gives the locality of this species as ]N T cw 

 Holland. It has since been found at Mauritius and in " Oceania ;" 

 it is only a doubtful Australian species. 



Genus Lophact.ea, A. Edwards. 



Carapace strongly convex both transversely and antero- 

 posteriorly. Antero-lateral borders long, forming a regular 

 curve of large radius with the front ; with a fine sharp border 

 divided by narrow incisions into lobes. Kegions well-defined, 

 divided into lobes by smooth fissures. Front lamellar, straight 

 or slightly sinuous. Antennary region and external maxillipedes 

 as in Atergatis. Chelipedes sub-equal, sometimes surmounted 

 by a crest, sometimes rounded above. Ambulatory legs short, 

 compressed laterally, crested above. Abdomen of the male with 

 five segments. 



68. Lophactaea granulosa. 



Xantho granulosus, Kiippell. 



(JEgle granulosus, De Haan, Faun. Japon., p. 17. 



Cancer limbatus, Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust, t. i., p. 377, 

 pi. xvi., fig. 14. 



Atergatis limbatus, Dana, op. cit., t. i., p. 157 ; Heller, ISynops. 

 der Crust, des Kothen Meeres, p. 4. 



Lophactcea granulosa, A. M.-Edw., Nouv. Arch, du Mus., t. i., 

 p. 247. 



Carapace broad ; surface closely covered with coarse rounded 

 and prominent tubercles, which become obsolete on the posterior 

 portion of the carapace. Front straight and interrupted in the 

 middle line by a linear fissure. Antero-lateral borders longer 

 than the postero-lateral borders, thin, lamellar, smooth, and 

 divided by three linear fissures into four lobes of which the last 

 is the smallest. Chelipedes sub-equal ; hand rounded and 

 granular above, not crested. 



Cape Grenville (Macleay Museum). Found previously in the 

 Ked Sea and on the coast of Zanzibar. 



Genus Act-ea, l)e Haan. 

 Carapace broad, convex, especially in the anteroposterior 

 direction; slightly convex behind. Kegions strongly marked 



