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and the form and sculpture of the outer surface of these two joints is 

 characteristic : they are broadened (the greatest breadth of the propodite 

 beinc^ about three-fifths of its length) and are longitudinally traversed by a 

 spinose carina : the surface on either side of the carina — but especially on the 

 dorsal side — is hollowed, and is very elegantly tesselated by a series of deep- 

 cut and extrenr.ely regular transverse grooves. 



Colours in spirit : carapace yellowish, with some scattered rosy patches ; 

 chelipeds and legs yellow and rusty red, the red tending to form cross-bands, 

 which are best marked on the merus and carpus. 



Length of carapace (of largest specimen in I. M. collection) nearly 

 35 millim. 



Distribution : from the coast of E, Africa eastwards to Japan, i.e., from 

 about 4o°E. to about i3o'"E., and from about 3o°N. to about i2"S. 



1266. Off TutJcorin (G. of Manar), 5 fath. " Investigator." 



'^^^~^ Off S. coast Ceylon, 32 fath. " Investigator." 



?Zi':zH, Off Cheduba (Arakan coast), 7 fath. " Investigator." 



5752-3^ Q^ Malabar coast, 28 fath. " Investigator." 



r2H2f. Hongkong. R. Hungerford.J 



4. Pagurus fabimanus, Dana. Plate VIII., fig. 2. 



Pagitrus fabimanus, Dana, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1852, p. 270, and U. S. Expl. Exp. 

 Crust., pt. 1., p. 454, pi. xxviii.. fig. 7 a—e., 1852 : Hilgfndorf, MB. K. Ak. Berlin, 1878, p. 819. 

 Whitelegge, Mem. Austral. Mus. 111. 1897, p. 142. 



This small species seems to be most closely related to P. setifer 

 (= sculpiipes). 



Carapace somewhat depressed, its breadth across the branchial regions 

 about three-fourths its length in the middle line ; almost bare of setae. 



Eyestalks subcylindrical, slightly dilated anteriorly, as long as the front 

 border of the carapace and longer than the antennular peduncles : the eyes 

 occupy about a quarter of the length of their terminal joint. 



Antennal acicle short, hardly reaching the end of the penultimate joint 

 of the antennal peduncle. The joints of the distal half of the antennal 

 flagellum have the antero-internal angle produced. 



The smaller cheiiped and the dactyli of the legs alone are decidedly 

 hirsute. Left cheiiped vastly the larger, its length in a straight line (chord) 



