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is half as long again as the sagittal line of the carapace : the lower border and 

 outer distal angle of the merus, and the upper border of the wrist, hand, and 

 dactylus are spinulose ; the lower border of the hand is well defined, entire or 

 crenulate ; otherwise the large cheliped to the naked eye is smooth. 



The legs of both sides reach beyond the tip of the larger cheliped : under 

 a lens the legs are finely scabrous only, not spinulose. 



The last two joints of the third left leg have the scabrous outer surface 

 flattened and its margins sharply defined, the outer surface of the dactylus 

 is also longitudinally grooved : the greatest breadth of the propodite is more 

 than half its length. In form, but not in sculpture, these joints resemble 

 those of P. setifer. 



Colours as in P. setifer, but the rusty-red patches are fainter. 



Carapace about lo millim. in length. 



Distribution : Mozambique, Laccadives and Maldives, Philippines, Fiji, 

 Tongatabu, Funafuti. 



—TrT- Minnikoy. J. Stanley Gardiner. 



5. Pagurus wood-masoni, n. sp. Plate IX., fig. 3. 



Carapace decidedly depressed, its greatest breadth across the branchial 

 regions about eleven-twelfths its length in the middle line ; almost bare of 

 setae. 



Eyestalks depressed, much broadened distally, not quite as long as the 

 front border of the carapace, slightly longer than the antennular peduncle. 

 The large reniform eyes occupy between a third and a fourth of the length 

 of the terminal joint of the eyestalk. The serrated antennal acicle con- 

 siderably overlaps the last joint of the antennal peduncle. 



Chelipeds and legs sparingly setose. Left cheliped vastly the larger, its 

 length measured in a straight line (chord) is about twice that of the sagittal 

 line of the carapace : its hand, which is long and comparatively narrow, is 

 inclined inwards, somewhat as in Diogenes miles : the merus has its borders 

 spinose, especially the cristiform inner border; the wrist has its inner border 

 and the lower part of its outer surface spinose ; the hand and dactylus are 

 abundantly spinose on the outer and upper surface, the spines on the inner 

 border of the hand being enlarged and those on the lower border formmg 

 a serrated crest. 



The crawling legs on both sides surpass the tip of the large cheliped, 

 those of the right side being somewhat the longer : in all the carpus is 



