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Carapace of the unique specimen 18 raillim. in either diameter. 



Q'«2 C Bay of Beiio-al. 112 fathoms ) ^, , ,._, „ 



?±^. Ttp. OF T„K SPECIE.. I J.i4O5'55"Long.80'25'20" I' "I-est.gator. 



Named after Commander C. J. Kendall, R.I.M., sometime surveyor on board 

 the Investigator. 



Sphxrodromia nv.r, Alcock. Plate IV., fig. 19. 



Sph^mdromia nux, Alooek, J. A. S. B., LXVIII., pt. 2, 1899, p. 151. 



Carapace globose, finely frosted with granules when denuded: the well 

 defined lateral borders run down to the angles of the buccal cavern, and not to 

 the orbits. 



The tooth which forms the lower wall of the orbit is very broadly triangular 

 and non-prominent. 



When the external maxillipeds are closed there is a mere chink between 

 their anterior border and that of the buccal cavern. 



The edo-es of the arm and the outer surface of the wrist and hand arc finely 

 granular, the granules of the wrist and hand having a tendency to run in lines : 

 the upper border of the wrist and palm are coarsely subcristiform. 



Ill the male rudimentary appendages are present on the 3rd, 4th and 5th 

 abdominal somites. 



Carapace of the largest specimen nearly 10 millim. long and nearly 11 

 millim. in greatest breadth. 



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Types op the species. Gulf of Alartaban. 70 fathoms. " Itivesticrator." 



Coxciiu:cETES, Stimpson. 



Concluecetes, Stimpson, Proc. Acad. Kat. Sci. Pliilad. 1838(1859), p. 226: Alcock, J. A. S. B., LXVIH., pt. 2, 

 1899, p. 150. 



All parts, except the dactyh (which are more or less hairy) and the tips of 

 the fingers, covered with a velvety tomentum. 



Carapace flat, subpentagonal, non-elongate in the adult. Front cut into 3 

 teeth, of which the middle one is much smaller and is on a very much lower 

 plane than the others. 



Palate well delimited from the epistome. Efferent branchial channels well 

 defined. 



Chelipeds in the male much more massive and much longer than any of the 

 legs. 



The third pair of ambulatory legs though shorter are not less massive than 



