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antennules, dorsally sparsely setose. Eyes large. Ophthalmic scales 

 widely separated, small, subacute with a suhterminal spine on the under 

 surface 



Upper antennular flagellum more than two-thirds the length of the 

 peduncle. Antennal acicle curved, setose, reaching end of peduncle : 

 flagellum long, nude. 



Chelipeds rather slender, similar in form and sculpture, of nearly equal 

 length, but the right wrist and hand broader and bulkier than the left : 

 like the legs they are copiously setose, but not so densely as to obscure the 

 surface sculpture : their length is about twice that of the carapace. The 

 carpus is about as long as the merus, and much longer than the palm ; the 

 palm is longer than broad, and longer than the fingers in the case of the 

 right hand, but shorter in the case of the left : the inner border of the carpus 

 and palm is spinose, the outer surface of the carpus and palm is traversed 

 by a longitudinal spinose carina — submedian in the case of the carpus, 

 median in the case of the palm, the outer border of the palm and fixed 

 finger is serrated : the finger-tips are conspicuously corneous. 



The 2nd and 3rd pairs of legs surpass the chelipeds by about half the 

 length of their dactyli : there is a spine at the far end of the anterior border 

 of the carpus, and there are numerous capillary spinelets in the distal 

 half of the posterior border of the dactylus, which latter joint is stout, 

 compressed, curved, and ends in a dark-coloured claw : the dactylus of the 

 3rd pair, which is a little longer than that of the 2nd, is nearly as long as 

 the two preceding joints combined. 



The right vas deferens is a stout tube ending in a very long lax curly 

 filament ; the left is short and blunt. The first pair of abdominal appen- 

 dages of the female are short curved rods. 



Length of carapace 10 millim. 



Inhabiting shells of Pirula, Astraliiim, and Trttonidea. 



■ "~ . Off Travancore coast, 102 fathoms. " Investigator." 



2. Nematopagurus gardineri, n. sp. Plate XII., fig. 2. 



Resembles N. indicus, but has much longer eyestalks and more pilose 

 chelipeds. 



Carapace smooth, rostrum indistinct. Eyestalks as long as the anterior 

 border of the carapace, longer than the antennal peduncles, and reaching 

 to the distal fourth of the terminal joint of the antennular peduncles : 



