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Eyes well formed and facetted, but pale. Antennal fiagella about half again 

 as long as the carapace. 



The pediform external maxillipeds have their surfaces and edges devoid of 

 spines. 



Chelipeds slender, but much more massive than the ambulatory legs, about 

 half a hand-length shorter than the first pair of ambulatory legs in the adult 

 male : spines and spinules in rows on edges and on both inner and outer surfaces 

 of arms, wrists and hands : fingers about three-fourths the length of the palm. 



The second pair of legs, which are slightly longer than the first and third 

 and considerably more than twice the length of the fourth, are slightly more 

 than three times the length of the carapace. In the first three pair the 

 meropodites are compressed, with the anterior border spiny and the posterior 

 border much less strongly and profusely spiny ; the other joints are slender 

 and unarmed, except for a few articulating spinelets at the far end of the posterior 

 border of the propodite and in the basal half of the posterior border of the 

 dactylus ; the dactylus is slightly shorter than the propodite. 



The fourth (last) pair are very slender and are unarmed except at their 

 cheliform ending : their propodite is many times longer than the dactylus. 



The terminal joint of the male abdomen is bluntly triangular. 



There are some soft bristles on the chelipeds, and a few on the legs, and 

 some very short and inconspicuous hairs on the carapace. 



Colours in life, pink ; fingers blackish. 



The carapace of a large egg-laden female is 19 millim. long and 15 millim. 

 broad. 



6225-6226 (Types of the"1 

 9 species). [ 



6227-6228 [ 



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8523-8532 



Arabian Sea, 15' 2' N., 72' 3i' E. 740 fathoms. " Investigator." 



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Arabian Sea, 12° 5' 35" N., 71° 35' 50" E. 805-880 fatboms. " Investigator." 



Arabian Sea, 15° 11' N., 72" 28' 45" E. 912-931 fathoms. "Investigator." 



Arabian Sea, IS" 47' N., 72° 3' 45" E. 891 fathoms. "Investigator." 



Arabian Sea, 22° 14' 25" N., 67° 8' 55" E. 947 fathoms. " Investigator." 



Arabian Sea, 23° 8' 22" N., 65° 49' 45" E. 890 fathoms. " Investigator." 



Bay of Bengal, 10° 50' 30" N., 80° 44' 30" E. 987-900 fathoms. " Investigator.',' 



