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just surpassing the antennal angles of the carapace, but not reaching to the 

 middle of the ophthalmic scales. 



Eyestalks decidedly stout, just longer than the front border of the 

 carapace and than the antennular peduncle. Eyes large. 



Antennal acicle spinose, reaching to the anterior fourth of the termmal 

 joint of the peduncle: antennal flagellum just longer than the carapace. 



Chelipeds subequal, rather slender, about half again as long as the 

 carapace measured in the middle line : the upper border of the merus, and 

 the inner border of the wrist and hand and finger are spinose : the exposed 

 surfaces of the wrist, hand and fingers are closely covered with coarse but 

 acute spinules, which have a sinuous-linear arrangement on the wrist. 

 The cutting edges of the fingers are quite straight, and meet closely through- 

 out their length. 



The 2nd and 3rd legs on both sides reach beyond the chelipeds ; the 

 anterior border of the carpus and propodite of the 2nd pair is strongly 

 spinose ; the lower border of the elongate dactylus of both pairs is evenly 

 and elegantly fringed with capillary spinelets. 



Length of carapace 10 millim. Colours in spirit : yellow, eyestalks pinkish. 



inhabiting clean shells of Xenophora paliidiila. 



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-rjr— Off Port Blair, Andamans, 112 fath. " Investigator." 



5, Paguriptes longirostris, Dana. Plate I., fig. 5. 



Paouvistes longirostris, Dana, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci, Philad. (1851), 1852, p. 271 ; and U. S. 

 Espl. Exp. Crust., pt. 1., p. 436, pi. xxviii, fig. \ a,h: Nobili, Boll. Mus. Zool. Torino, XVIII, 

 1903. No. 445, p. 20. 



Carapace nearly naked, its breadth across the branchial regions about 

 two-thirds its length in the middle line. The rostrum, which is defiexed, 

 reaches to the middle of the ophthalmic scales. 



Eyestalks moderately slender, considerably longer than the anterior 

 border of the carapace and than the antennular peduncle. Ophthalmic 

 scales spinulose at tip, on the inner side. 



Antennal acicle spinose and setose, reaching beyond the middle of the 

 terminal joint of the peduncle : the flagellum is less than three-fourths the 

 length of the carapace. 



Chelipeds subequal, or one (right or left) may be very slightly larger as 

 to the wrist and hand : the anterior border of the merus and the inner 

 border of the wrist are spinose : the whole of the exposed (extensor) surface 

 of the wrist, hand and fingers is covered with fiat, scale-like, imbricating 



