( 107 ) 



The gills are quadriserial trichobranchise and are ii in number on 

 either side, arranged as in Parapaourus, Eupa^ums, Catapa^urus, etc. 



The species of this genus have been found only at considerable depths 

 in the Indo-Pacific. 



I. Pagurodes LiMATULus, Heodersoo. Plate XII., fig. 6. 



Pagurodes limatulus, Henderson, Challenger Anomura, 1888, p. 96, pi. x., fig. 6: Aicock, 

 Cat. Indian Deep-Sea Crust., 1901, p. 225. 



Rostrum broadly triangular, obtuse, slightly more prominent than the 

 obtuse antennal angles of the carapace. 



Eyestalks stoutish, hardly half the length of the anterior border of the 

 carapace dorsally sparsely setose, not reaching the middle of the penultimate 

 joint of the antennal peduncle. Eyes not broader than the eyestalk. Oph- 

 thalmic scales small, distant, subacute. 



The antennal peduncle, which is sparsely setose, reaches to about the 

 middle of the terminal joint of the antennular peduncle ; the anterior angle of 

 its and joint forms a spine which reaches to the end of the eye. The acicle 

 is curved, sparsely setose, and reaches nearly to the end of the peduncle. 

 The slender flagellum is nude and much longer than the body. 



The right cheliped is little longer, but much stouter, than the left, and 

 is close upon three times as long as the carapace ; the merus, which is about 

 as long as the carpus, has some transverse setose rugae on its upper aspect, 

 its lower surface granulous, and a couple of spines at the far end of its 

 lower border : the carpus, which is longer than the palm, has the upper 

 surface granulous and sparsely setose, and the inner border spinulose, the 

 spines increasing in size towards its distal end : the palm is much longer 

 than broad and longer than the fingers, its upper surface is smooth, tending 

 to be granulous towards the inner border : the fingers are more or less 

 setose. 



The left cheliped, which is very slender, reaches the middle of the right 

 dactylus : the carpus is much longer than the palm and has two longitudinal 

 rows of spinules on its upper surface, and a smooth rounded protuberance 

 at the far end of its inner surface : the palm has the upper surface more or 

 less granulous, with a median longitudinal ridge : the fingers are smooth 

 and longer than the palm. 



The 2nd and 3rd legs surpass the right cheliped by about one-fourth 

 the length of their dactylus : the anterior surface of the merus and carpus 

 and propodus is transversely rugulose and sparsely setose : the propodite, 

 which ends in a yellow claw, is as long as the two preceding joints combined, 

 and has numerous capillary spinelets on its posterior edge. 



