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eyes not much expanded : ophthalnnic scales very small, bifid at tip. 

 Antennal acicle curved, setose, nearly reaching the end of the peduncle : 

 flagellum long, nude. 



Chelipeds thickly pilose, especially so on the outer surface of the wrist 

 and palm ; the right is a little larger than the left, but both are almost alike 

 in form and sculpture : the carpus has an iridescent sheen, its inner edge 

 is spinose, and there is a median longitudinal row of spines on its outer 

 surface : both edges of the palm are well defined and serrulate, and there 

 is a median longitudinal carina on the outer surface of the palm : the palm 

 is slightly longer than broad, longer than the fingers in the right cheliped, 

 and about as long as the fingers in the left. 



2nd and 3rd legs nearly a dactylus longer than the chelipeds : they are 

 sparsely setose and except for a spine at the far end of the anterior border 

 of the carpus are unarmed : the dactyli end in a sharp claw and have some 

 capillary spinelets on their posterior border : the dactylus of the 3rd pair 

 is about as long as the combined merus and carpus. 



The paired appendages of the first abdominal somite of the female are 

 slender curved rods. 



Length of carapace of an egg-laden female 5 millim. 



A single specimen, inhabiting a shell of a Cerithiid, from the Maldive Is. 



From Mr. Stanley Gardiner's Maldive collection : not in the Museum. 



3. Nematopagurus muricatus, Henderson. Plate XII., fig. 5, 



Catapagurus muricatus, Henderson, J. A. S. B,, LXV., 1896, pt. 2, p. 524. Illustrations 

 Zool. Investigator, Crust., pi. XXXI., fig. 3. 



Carapace nude ; rostrum broad, rounded, obsolescent, not so prominent 

 as the antennal angles of the carapace. 



Eyestalks stout, much dilated anteriorly, not so long as the front border 

 of the carapace, about as long as the antennal peduncles, and reaching to 

 the middle of the terminal joint of the peduncles of the antennules. Eyes 

 large. Ophthalmic scales widely separated, small, subacute with a sub- 

 terminal spinule on the under surface. 



Upper antennular flagellum longer than the terminal joint of its peduncle. 

 Antennal acicle curved and reaching nearly to the end of the eye. 



Chelipeds subequal and similar, the right hand and wrist a little bulkier 

 than the left, like the legs sparsely setose : the carpus is much longer than 

 the merus and longer than the palm, the palm is longer than broad, the 

 fingers of the right cheliped are shorter than, and those of the left cheliped are 



