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anlcro-lateral toetli are small, Avliilc the second, third, aud fourth are larg-er and subequal. 

 The hand is without spines. 



The carapace of the Tuticorin example is 11 mm. long and 13-5 mm. broad. 



Distri/mtion. Celebes Sea, 10 fathoms {Jliers). 



Genus Kkaussia, Dana. 



123. KuATJSSiA NLTiDA, Stimpson. (IM. XXXVII. tig. 9.) 



K. nitida, Stimpson, Proc. Acad. Nat. S('i. Philad. Mar. 1858, p. 10; Miers, ' Alert ' Crust, p. 235 



(1884). 



Tuticorin, a female {Thur,ston) ; ALadras coast (.7. R. II.). 



The front is quadrilobed, with the minlian slightly smaller than the outer lobes, and 

 the margin of all finely crenulated and fringed with long brown hairs. A median and 

 two lateral fissures on each side of the front are present, which, though obsolete, 

 extend some distance back on the carapace, aud tlie most external arises from the 

 upper orbital margin. The carapace is minutely granulated anteriorly and towards 

 the sides. The lateral margin is crenulated, with a slight tooth about one third of tlie 

 distance l)ack, and immediately in front of this the margin is slightly indented. The 

 hands are finely granulated externally, and long hau's are present on the legs and on 

 the meral joints of the chelipedes. 



The Tuticorin specimen is 13"7 mm. loiig and l.j mm. broad. 



BistribHtion. Chinese and Japanese Seas, on a sandy bottom at a dcptli of 20-24 

 fathoms [Stimpson) ; Torres Straits {3Iiers). 



Group Catometopa. 



Genus Heteroplax, Stimpson. 



124. Heteroplax nitidus, Miers. 



H. nitidus, JMiers, Proc. Zool. Soc. 187'J, p. 39, pi. ii. tig. 2. 



Gulf of Martaban, a male ( Gates) ; Madras coast, several specimens, including females 

 with ova {J. B. H.). 



I have compared these with the type-specimen in the British Museum, and can find 

 no difference except that the Indian specimens are somewhat smaller. 



Distri/mfion. Corean Straits, 10 fathoms (Miers). 



Genus Scalopidia, Stimpson. 



125. Scalopidia spinosipes, Stimpson. 



S. spinosipes, Stimpson, Proc. Acad. Nat Sci. Phiiad., April 1858, p. 95. 



Gulf of Martaban, an adult female (Oates). 



I have compared this with typical specimens from Hong Kong, named l)y Stimpson, 

 and presented to the British Museum by the Smithsonian Institution. The carapace is 

 granidated and punctate, with an acute spinule at the posterior limit of the sharply 



