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var. MERGUiENsis, de Man. Plate IV., fig. 5. 



Clihanariui aquabilis var. merguiensis, de Man, Journ, Linn. Soc, Zool., XXII., 1888, 

 p. 247 : Lanchester, P.Z.S., 1902, p. 365. 



Greatest breadth of carapace rather more than two-thirds the lencrth 

 in the middle line. Rostrum very short, not surpassing the antennal angles 

 of the carapace. 



Eyestalks as long as the anterior border of the carapace, and slightly 

 longer than the antennular peduncles : ophthalmic scales large, with the free 

 edge spinose, approximated. 



The antennal acicle hardly overlaps the base of the terminal joint of the 

 peduncle. 



Chelipeds subequal, hardly longer than the carapace, a good deal stouter 

 than the legs : the inner lower edge of the merus is elegantly serrulate : the 

 upper surface of the wrist, hand, and fingers is more or less studded with 

 conical spinules interspersed with setae, the spinules being strongest along 

 the inner edge of all three joints : there is a gap between the bases of the 

 closed fingers. 



The 2nd and 3rd legs reach beyond the chelipeds by considerably more 

 than the length of their dactyli ; both are smooth, and sparsely setose. In 

 the and pair the dactylus is about two-thirds, and in the 3rd pair about five- 

 sevenths, the length of the propodite. The propodite of the 3rd left leg has 

 its outer surface remarkably flattened, and the upper border of that surface 

 subcarinate. The dactylus of both pairs of legs, but especially that of the 

 3rd pair, is compressed 



Colours in spirit : yellow, or pinkish-yellow, tips of fingers and claws of 

 dactyli black. 



Length of carapace about g raillim. 



i^. Kyouk Phyoo. "Investigator" (4). 



— , — . — r— . Mergui. Dr. J. Anderson (20). 



— — Trincomalee. " Investigator " (4). 



This species is very like the Mediterranean C. misanthropus, from which 

 it differs in being less setose. 



6. Clibanarius humilis, Dana. Plate IV., fig. 6. 

 Clibanartus humilis, Dana, U. S. Expl. Exp. Crust., pt. 1., 1852, p. 469, pi. xxix., fij>. J» : 

 Heller, Novara Crust., 1865, p. 90. 



