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angle into postero-Iateral margins. Walking legs naked (?) L. glabra Baker ^) 



Lateral margins of carapace regularly arched 1 1 



1 1 . Carapace covered with a dense pubescence 12 



Carapace not pubescent, smooth or granulate 13 



12. Length of carapace to breadth as i :i.32, lateral margins 



not much convex, with three very faint notches or pro- 



minences in their anterior part L. sitbintegra Lanchester 



Length of carapace to breadth as i : 1.45 (approximately), 

 lateral margins much convex, with two inconspicuous 

 notches in their anterior part L. integra (Miers)") 



13. Carapace smooth, breadth little exceeding its length, with 



traces of two faint notches on either side L. inermis Borradaile ") 



Carapace strongly granulate, especially on the hepatic 

 regions, length to breadth as i : 1.25, no notches on 

 lateral margins L. de charmoyi Bouvier *) 



I. Litochcira sctosa (A. Milne-Edwards). PI. i, Fig. i. 



Literature: Alcock, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, v. 69, prt 2, 1900, p. 315. 



Rathbun, K. Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Skr., 7. Raekke, Afd. 5, n" 4, 19 10, p. 340. 



Stat. 34. Labuan Pandan, east coast of Lombok. Depth 18 m. i O. 



Stat. 53. Nangamessi Bay, north coast of Sumba. Depth up to 36 m. i cf. 



Stat. 127. Taruna Bay, Great Sangir Island, between Celebes and Philippines. Depth 45 m. 



I cf' 2 9 (011e with eggs). 

 Stat. 181. Ambon. Depth i€i — 54 m. i c^, 2 9 (one of the latter with a parasitic Bopyrid in 



the left branchial cavity). 

 Stat. 240. Banda. Depth 9 — 45 m. i 9 (with Sacculina). 



The carapace of this species is for the greater part smooth and naked, without indication 

 of regions, only the cervical groove being visible as a short, straight and shallow depression, 

 terminating at either end into a semi-lunar concavity, which is besët with very short hairs. 

 Similar hairs are found along the anterior and antero-lateral borders of the carapace and in 

 the long median sulcus parting from the anterior margin of the front ; among these hairs, 

 at least near the suborbital and antero-lateral borders, numerous granules are freely scattered. 

 The greatest breadth of the carapace varies between 1.4 to nearly 1.5 times its length and 

 the fronto-orbital border is almost or quite exactly as long as this length, so that the lateral 

 margins are conspicuously arched anteriorly. The external orbital angle is not prominent and 

 behind it we find two prominences on the lateral margins, which prominences vary rather 

 largely: sometimes they present the shape of two depressed teeth, the anterior somewhat larger 



i) Transact. K. Soc. South Australia, Adelaide, v. 30, 1906, p. iio, pi. 2, f. i, pi. 3, f. 3. Hab. South Australia. 



2) Carcinoplax integra Miers, Rep. Zool. "Alert", 1884, p. 543, pi. 48, f. C; Litochira integra Alcock, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal; 

 V. 69, prt 2, 1900, p. 314; Bouvier, Buil. se. France et Belgique, v. 48, 1915, p. 119, textfig. 34; Laurie, Journ. Linn. Soc. London, 

 V. 31, 1915, p. 464, pi. 45, f. 2. Hab. Seychelles, Mergui Arch., Mauritius, Ked Sea. An Litocheira integia Borradaile, Fauna and Geography 

 Maldive and Laccadive Arch., v. i, 1903, p. 430? 



3) Borradaile, Fauna and Geography Maldive and Laccadive Arch., v. i, 1903. p. 430. Hab. Male AtoU. 



4) Buil. SC. France et Belgique, v. 48, 1915, p. 121, textfig. 35, pi. 5, f. 8, pi. 6, f. 9. Hab. Port Louis (Mauritius). 



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