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Actaea aphrodita new species. 



Plate 67. 



Type: One male, collected in Temukus Roads, Bali, Dutch East 

 Indies, October 25, 1931, by the ''Alva." 



Distribution : known only from the type locality. 



Material examined : Holotype. 



Color : Carmine dorsally, with many brown and golden setae. 



Technical description : This species reminds one more of the West 

 Indian Actaea setigera (Milne Edwards) than of any other tropical 

 Actaea but is less distinctly lobulated. Among the IndoPacific 

 Actaeas it is to be associated with Actaea nodulosa and A. echinus but 

 is distinct from these. 



The carapace is widely oval, the postlateral borders but little ex- 

 cavate, quite convex fore and aft in the anterior region, less so from 

 side to side ; two-thirds as long in the median line as wide. The inter- 

 orbital region is about one-third of the total width of the carapace, 

 faintly bilobed, with the frontal margins deflexed, slightly sinuate, the 

 preorbital angle nearly right-angled, only faintly differentiated from 

 the frontal lobe. The superior orbital margin is beaded with numerous 

 coarse, conical granules and bears an indication of two closed sutures 

 on the outer half; the inferior orbital margin is also beaded with 

 coarse granules, which are abundant on the adjacent sidewalls of the 

 carapace. The inferior inner orbital angle is obscure. The antero- 



