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The 2nd and 3rd pairs of legs of the left side hardly reach to, those of 

 the right side only just surpass, the tips of the chelipeds : strong spines are 

 present on the anterior border of the carpus and propodite of the and 

 pair. 



Colours in spirit : pinkish white ; very faint red crossbands on the legs ; 

 on the inner surface of the merus of the chelipeds there is a well defined white 

 patch on a faint pink ground. Length of carapace 7-8 millim. 



The eggs are of relatively enormous size, their major diameter being 

 125 millim., and their minor diameter, i millim. 



1120 

 lu 



Off N. B. coast of Ceylon, 28 fath. " Investigator." 



7. Paguristes punicbus, Henderson. Plate III., fig. 6, 



Paguristes puniceus, Henderson, J. A. S. B., LXV., 1896, pt 2, p, 527. Illustrations Zool. 

 Investigator, Crust., pi. xxxii., flg. 1. 



Carapace non-setose, its breadth across the branchial regions about two- 

 thirds its length in the middle line. The rostrum is triangular and barely 

 reaches the middle of the ophthalmic scales. 



Eyestalks slender, less than three-fourths the length of the front border 

 of the carapace, hardly reaching the middle of the terminal joint of the 

 antennular peduncle. The tip of the ophthalmic scales is entire or obscurely 

 bifid. 



Antennal acicle spinose and setose, reaching to the middle third of the 

 terminal joint of the peduncle : the flagellum not quite as long as the 

 carapace. 



Chelipeds similar and subequal, about half again as long as the carapace, 

 rather thickly beset with fine, long, yellow bristles : the edges of the merus are 

 serrulate ; on the outer surface of the carpus there are three longitudinal 

 rows of strong spines, of which the innermost row are the largest ; there are 

 several rows of similar spines on the hand, of which the innermost row are 

 largest, and the edges of the fingers are serrated. When the fingers are 

 closed there is a decided gap between their bases. 



The 2nd and 3rd pairs of legs are long, on both sides exceeding the 

 chelipeds by about a dactylus length : their edges, especially those of the 

 and pair, are fringed with long, yellow bristles, and the anterior border of the 

 carpus and propodite of the 2nd pair is strongly spinose. 



