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numerous rows of sharp granules and the long setae fringing the upper border of the palm 

 continued to the tip of the finger, cutting margin flattened in its proximal portion and accom- 

 panied at the outer side by a long prominent keel, similar to that of the immovable finger, 

 distal part of cutting margin with four teeth, alternating with those of the other finger, and 

 diminishing in size towards tip of finger; base of fingers gaping, the gap being filled 

 with four bunches of stiff hairs, one being placed on the palm, one on the fixed finger, 

 and the two remaining ones on the other finger. 



The walking legs are slender, but not very long, the penultimate pair being not yet twice 

 as long as the carapace. The meropodites are four times as long as broad, and finely 

 ere nu late along both margins; anterior margin of carpo- and propodite 

 armed in the same way. Dactyli longer than propodites; conical, nearly straight, armed 

 along both margins with largely-separated spines. 



The abdomen of the cf (fig. 2 c) is much narrower than that of any other species of 

 Litocheira : though the first and third segment exactly reach as far outward as to touch the 

 coxopodites of the last pair of legs, the fourth, fifth and sixth segment do not 

 taper at all, their lateral margins being parallel, these segments are subequal in length 

 and the length is about half the breadth in each case; the terminal segment is broader than 

 long and broader than the preceding segment, its outline is about three-quarters of that of a 

 circle. The abdomen of the 9 is likewise narrow, though of course broader than in the cT ; it 

 narrows very gradually from the third segment to the terminal one, which latter is semi-elliptical 

 and twice as long as the preceding. The eggs are comparatively few in number and rather 

 large, their diameter varying from 0.35 to 0.4 mm. 



Dimensions in mm. : 



I 



3-85 

 2.1 



Breadth of fronto-orbital border .... 



Breadth of front 



Greatest breadth of carapace 4.4 



Length of carapace 3.9 



Base of abdomen 



Length of meropodite 



Breadth of meropodite 



Length of carpopodite along anterior margin \ of penultimate pair of legs 



Length of propodite along anterior margin 



Length of dactylus 



Horizontal length of chela j 



Height of palm | 



N° I and 3 are from Stat. 51, n" 2 (the cf here figured) and 4 are from Stat. 260 



2 with eggs 

 4.6 

 2.4 



5-85 

 4.8 



6. Litocheira subintegra (Lanchester). PI. 16, Fig. i. 



1888. Carcinoplax integer de Man nee Miers. Journ. Linn. Soc. London, v. 22, p. 93. 



1900. Litocliira integral Alcock. Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, v. 69, prt. 2, p. 314. 



1900. Carcitioplax submteger Lanchester. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1900, p. 750, pi. 46, f. 9. 



Stat. 153. o°3'.8 N., I30°24'.3 E. Near north-west point of Waigeu Island. Depth 141 m. i cf. 



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