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3- Aniculus strigatus, Herbst. Plate VII , fig. 4. 



Cancer strigatus, Herbst, Krabben, III. iv. 1804, p. 25, pi. Ixi., fig. 3. 



Pagurus strigatus, Olivier, Encycl. Method. VI H. 1811, p. 647 : Hilgendorf, MB. k. Akad. 

 Berlin, 1878, p. 820, pi. ii., fig. 8: Ortmann, Zool. Jahrb.. Syst., VI. 1892, p. 285 : Bouvier, 

 Bull. Soc. Philom, Paris, (8) IV. 1891-92, p. 54 : Borradaile, Stomap. and Macr. of Willey's 

 Exped., 1899, p. 425: Nobili, Boll. Mus. Torino, XVIII. 1903, No. 452, p. 15. 



Aniculus slrisatus, Henderson, Tr. Linn. Soc, Zool., (2) V. 1893, p. 422. 



Not hirsute. Cephalothorax remarkably Hat and broad. Carapace 

 broader than long, its anterior margin almost straight. 



Eyestalks as long as the anterior border of the carapace, longer than 

 the antennular peduncles : ophthalmic scales separated, spiniform, with the 

 tip sometimes bifid. 



Antennal acicle spinulose, reaching nearly to middle of terminal joint 

 of peduncle : flagellum about as long as carapace. 



Chelipeds equal and similar (the left one sometimes a little larger than 

 the other), a little longer than the carapace : the rings or scutes, like those 

 of the legs, are quite unarmed : merus longer than high : a few short tufts of 

 bristles on the fingers, which are not so coarse and broad as in other 

 species of the genus and open and close in a plane that departs but very 

 slightly from the horizontal. 



The 2nd and 3rd legs surpass the chelipeds by a dactylus-length : the 

 dactyli are hirsute on both edges, the other joints have only the ventral border 

 more or less setose : in the 2nd pair the dactylus is a little longer, in the 

 3rd pair much longer, than the propodite. 



In the female the 4th abdominal appendage is large and biramous, 

 resembling the preceding appendages. 



The sternum is exceedingly broad in consequence of the flattening of 

 the body, and so the bases of the external maxillipeds are almost as much 

 separated as they are in the EupagtirmcB, The flattening of the body cor- 

 responds with the nature of the habitation, which is a Conns shell with a 

 chink-like mouth. 



478. Andamans. J. Wood-Mason (2). 



1589. Cheduba, Arakan coast. Marine Survey (2). 



^^^Q Pedro Shoal. " Investigator." 



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Distribution : Mozambique and Gulf of Aden ; Malabar coast, G. of 

 Manar, and Bay of Bengal ; Loyalty Is., Tahiti : (about 40° E. to about 

 150° W. and about 19° N. to about 18° S.) 

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