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fringed with very long hairs (longer than the breadth of the 



joint to which they are attached) 2 



Carapace almost smooth, somewhat granular only towards the 

 margins, regions scarcely indicated, distinctly broader than long. 

 Anterior margin of front straight, lateral angles present. Wal- 

 king legs longer and more slender, fringed with rather short hairs T. pirocidatus (Rathbun) 

 2. Carapace very strongly and closely granulate, regions defined by 

 fine and deep grooves, posterolateral margins convergent 

 backward, .straight. Surface of front not more hairy than antero- 

 lateral margins of carapace. Eyes exceedingly minute, placed 

 at tips of eye-stalks. Walking legs short, but propodites of last 



pair of legs longer than broad at the base 



Granules on carapace more scattered and much less prominent, 

 regions indistinctly defined by much fainter grooves, postero- 

 lateral margfins somewhat concave. Surface of front covered 

 with a rather dense tuft of hairs, which are longer than those 

 found laterally. Eyes completely absent. Walking legs short, 

 propodites of last pair of legs as long as broad at the base . T. crassipcs n. sp. 



T. hirsiitits (Borradaile) 



I. Typhlocarcmodes hirstitus (Borradaile). PI. 15, Fig. 3. 



1903. Caecopiluiiuiiis hirsutus Borradaile. Faun. Geogr. Maldive and Laccadive Arch., v. i, 

 p. 269, textfig. 59. 



Stat. 51. Madura Bay, west coast of Flores. Depth 54 — 90 m. 2 cf- 



The carapace of this species is closely granulate, the granules being sharpened near the 

 margins. The pentagonal mesogastric area, which is separated off from the short-necked, bottle- 

 shaped cardiac region by a short and straight cervical groove, is clearly defined; protogastric, 

 hepatic and branchial regions are also developed. The carapace is somewhat vaulted transversely, 

 but much more so in the anterior half of the longitudinal axis, so that the front is deflexed. 

 Its anterior margin is markedly convex, and passes, without presenting lateral angles, into 

 the diverging lateral borders ; the transverse diameter of the front at its base is exactly one- 

 half of the fronto-orbital distance; its surface is provided with a short longitudinal groove, uniting 

 backward with the two sulci defining the anterior part of the mesogastric region, and crossed 

 by a row of hairs, which, like all those along the lateral margins of the cara- 

 pace, on the subhepatic and subbranchial regions and on the legs, are 

 feathered and very flexible, but not particularly longer than the rest. The orbits 

 are very shallow and completely filled by the pear-shaped, donsally granulate eye-stalks, which 

 bear a very minute eye at their tips^). The antero-lateral margins of the carapace 

 are sharpened, much diverging backward, and at the transition between them and the obtuse, 



\) lloKKADAii.E in his figure (fig. 59c) depicts a spot of pigment, a little distance back from the cornea, and I observed the 

 same in my specimens. 



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