120 PHILYRA SCABRIUSCULA. 



margin tridentate, middle tooth projecting a little more 

 than the lateral. Pterygostomiau regions and sternum quite 

 smooth in both sexes. Male abdomen with all the joints 

 except the last coalescent, its lateral margins sinuated, 

 resembling that of Leuc. whitmeei Miers. (Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 II Serie, Vol. I, PI. XXXVIII , fig. 18). Chelipedes 

 wholly resembling those of Leuc. pubescens Miers (1. c. fig. 

 22). Upper surface of the arm with a group of very small 

 tubercles at the base , covered by a patch of short dense 

 pubescence , which extends on the external half of the basal 

 thu'd part of the upper surface, with one or two small 

 tubercles in front of it; two distal thirds of upper surface 

 quite smooth ; anterior and posterior margins with a line 

 of nine or ten tubercles. 



Under margin also tuberculated and provided with a 

 patch of dense pubescence at the base ; external and under 

 surface of the arms wholly smooth. Wrist convex and 

 smooth with a line of three small tubercles at the inner 

 margin. Hands with the palm more long than broad with 

 rounded external margin , quite smooth except minutely 

 granulated near the inner margin, which passes to a 

 punctulated line on the immobile finger. Mobile finger 

 rather longer than the other , a little arcuated and like 

 the index minutely dentate on the whole inner margins. 

 Under surface of the fingers with a punctulated line. Male 

 chelipedes quite similar to those of the female. Colour 

 greenish grey with a series of yellowish spots near the 

 margins of the carapace , two white spots on each side of 

 the gastric region , followed by a sinuated white line on 

 each side of the cardiacal region. Anterior legs with the 

 articulation and the base of the fingers orange-coloured ; 

 ambulatory legs whitish with the distal ends of the mero- 

 podites and of the following joints also orange. 

 Length of carapace 14^/2 mm., breadth 12 mm. 



]/* h ily r a s c a b r i ii s c ul a Fabr. 

 Leucosia scabriuscula , Fabr. Suppl. Ent. Syst. p. 349. 



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