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Actaea remota, sp. nov. 

 PL 1, Fig. o  PI. 7, Fig. l. 



Carapace broad, about | as long as broad, tabulated all over, lobules low 

 and flat, the grooves between them smooth and covered with short hair, 

 the lobules themselves covered with small pearly granules, the narrow 

 interspaces filled with hair no higher than the granules and similar to 

 that between the lobules. Mesogastric region undivided ; protogastric 

 regions divided lengthwise into two lobules. Cardiac region undivided. 

 Branchial regions each with about nine lobules. Orbital region marked 

 off by a furrow. Intestinal region more finely granulate. 



Front strongly dellexed, moderately arched, median emargination not 

 discernible, owing to a break in the carapace. Orbit with one fissure 

 below, two above. Lateral lobes four, shallow, the first united with the 

 orbital angle, the grooves continued on the under surface, which is finely 

 granulate and almost naked. 



The left cheliped is missing. In the right one, the outer surface of the 

 wrist and the proximal end of the upper surface of the hand are indistinctly 

 lobulate. The granulation of wrist and hand is less dense, the hairs more 

 numerous. Dactylus granulous and hairy at base. Both fingers white, 

 hollowed at tip. Legs granulate and pilose, but not lobulate; carpal joints 

 with a longitudinal groove. 



Dimensions : — Type, length 6 mm., width 8.7 mm. 



T/jpe locality: — Easter Island; shore; Dec. 20, 1904; 1^ (Cat. No. 

 32,849, U. S. N. M.). 



This species appears to be nearest A. lata Borradaile, 1 which, however, has 

 long hairs mixed with the short ones, and the fingers pointed and black in 

 color. 



Actaea rufopunctata (Milue Edwards). 

 Actaea rufopunctata Alcock, 1898, 67, 142. 



Papeete, Tahiti; reef; Sept. 28, 1899; 1 ?. 

 Makemo, Paumotus ; reef; Oct. 21, 1899; 1 <?. 

 Funafuti, Ellice Id. ; shore ; Dec. 25, 1899 ; 1 <?. 



1 Fauna & Geog. Maldive & Laccadive Arch., 1902, 1, pt. 3, 255, text fig. 53. 



