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The species has been found in the foUowing- localities : New Caledonia, Mergui Arch., 

 Banda, Noordwachter Island near Batavia, Andamans and GuM of .Siam. 



Diniensions in mm. : 



Breadth of fronto-orbital border . . . 



Breadth of front 



Greatest breadth of carapace .... 

 Length of carapace 



X" I, 4 and 5 are from Stat. 12; (n" 4 is egg-bearing), n" 2 is from Stat. 53, n" 3 is from 

 Stat. 240 and bears a Sacculina beneath the abdomen. None of my specimens attains the size of 

 those of Milne-Edwards and de Man (breadth of carapace 9 mm. and more). 



2. Litochcira affinis n. sp. PI. i, Fig. 2. 



Stat. 66. South of Saleyer Island, Flores Sea. Depth 8 — 10 m. i 9- 



Stat. 315. Paternoster Islands, north of Sumbawa. Depth up to 36 m. 2 cf. 



This new species much resembles the preceding, but the fronto-orbital breadth is propor- 

 tionately larger, there are always three spiniform teeth at either side of the carapace, e.xcluding 

 the outer orbital angle, the walking legs are more slender, the chelipeds nearly equal, the inner 

 angle of the wrist is produced, and the left palm of the cf lacks the bare, smooth outer surface, 

 so conspicuoiis in L. sctosa. 



The fronto-orbital border is always longer than the length of the 

 carapace^ the latter presents scarcely any tracé of regions, and, besides with short and 

 widely-separated setae, it is uniformly covered with numerous minute, squamiform granules, 

 visible only on microscopical e.xamination ; these .are particularly crowded on the eye-stalks. 

 The shorter hairs near the suborbital and antero-lateral borders, found to a greater or lesser 

 e.xtent in L. setosa^ are wholly absent, and the whole animal is of a dull, milky-white colour. 

 The proportion of length to breadth is tor the rest the same as in the preceding species. 



As usual, the front is strongly deflexed, bilobed and provided with a continuous, trans- 

 verse row of long, silky setae, while similar, but much sliorter, hairs are inplanted on the 

 eye-stalks (fig. 2 d). Contrary to what is tound in L. sctosa^ there is a tracé of a rectangularly- 

 cut outer orbital angle, and at equal distan ces behind it we observe at either 

 side three spiniform teeth, the anterior of which is the larger; between the 

 e.xternal orbital angle and the anterior epibranchial tooth the margin is straight or slightly concave, 

 and the distance between the tips of the anterior teeth is scarcely smaller than that between 

 the tips of the ne.xt teeth, where the carapace is largest, so that the lines connecting at either 

 side the tips of the anterior and posterior epibranchial teeth are subparallel; beyond the teeth 

 the maroins are blunt and converQ-inCT somewhat backward. 



The antennulae are comparatively longer and more slender than, and the last joint of the 

 peduncle does not increase in thickness towards the distal end so conspicuously as, in L. setosa. 



The external maxillipeds (fig. 2 b), which by the way are covered with the same 

 squamiform granules as the carapace, are likewise more slender than in the preceding species; 

 the merus is smoothly rounded'off at its antero-external angle, not at all produced, the inner 



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