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Carapace with a few distant but rec;ularly disposed tufts of setae, its 

 greatest breadth about three-fourths its length in the middle line. Rostrum 

 broad, rounded off, little prominent. 



Eyestalks dorsally setose, slightly inflated at base, barely half ■ long 

 as the anterior border of the carapace, reachmg a short way beyond the 

 ist joint of the antennular peduncle, and to or a short way beyond the 

 penultimate joint of the antennal peduncle. Eyes small, more ventral than 

 dorsal ; ophthalmic scales simple, acute. 



Antennular peduncle either nearly or quite as long as the carapace, more 

 than half its length being contributed by the terminal joint, which is only 

 moderately enlarged distally : the upper fiagellum more than two-thirds the 

 length of the terminal joint. 



Antennal peduncle stout, barely reaching the end of the second joint of 

 the antennular peduncle : acicle long, surpassing the peduncle, curved, 

 setose, smooth or only faintly serrulate along the inner edge : the flagellum 

 more than four times the length of the carapace. ^^^' , 



Right cheliped from nearly 2^ to 3 times the length of the carapace, '^, d'^ ^.v- I) 

 all its long joints more or less clothed with a long soft copious tomentum., (y^/^ r^ ' 

 which is densest on the hand and often dense on the under surface of the yj^"^ ^^vJ''^ 

 merus and carpus : the joints are elongate, the carpus usually being slightly 

 longer than the palm and decidedly longer than the merus, and the dactylus SV- \ 



being as long as the palm. In the female the palm is nearly as broad (high) 

 as long, in the adult male it is longer than broad, and in old males may be 

 nearly twice as long as broad. The lower border of the ischium and merus 

 is bluntly serrulate: the upper surface of the merus and dactylus and the 

 upper and outer surfaces of the wrist and palm are studded with vesiculous 

 or subacute granules. 



The slender left cheliped reaches a short way beyond the carpus of the 

 right ; its joints are covered with a long soft tomentum which is particularly 

 thick on the outer surface of the palm and neighbouring end of the wrist : 

 the merus is nearly as long as the carpus and longer than the palm, the 

 dactylus is longer than the palm : there are a few distant granules on the 

 upper border of the wrist and palm only. 



The 2nd and 3rd legs of both sides surpass the larger cheliped — the 

 3rd, which are the longer, by the greater part of the dactylus : their joints 

 are compressed and are unarmed except for a tiny spinule at the far end of 

 the anterior border of the carpus, the anterior border of the long joints 

 being merely broken, or faintly rugulose, not serrate : the dactylus of the 

 2nd pair is as long as the two preceding joints, that of the 3rd pair is a 

 little longer, the dactyli of both pairs being plumose distally. 



Colour in the fresh state chiefly pink ; in spirit yellow. 



