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spinules at the far end of its lower borders : the entire outer surface of the 

 carpus and hand is covered with large, fiat, imbricating, regularly-arranged, 

 scute-like tubercles, the free edge of which is inconspicuously ciliated : on the 

 palm these scutes form two series only : the inner edge of the carpus is spinose, 

 but the edges of the palm and fingers are entire: the finger-tips are inconspi- 

 cuously corneous 



The 2nd and 3rd legs exceed the chelipeds by about half their dactylus : 

 the outer surface of the merus and carpus is squamose, that of the propodite 

 is ringed or scutellated, the squames and scutes being nude and polished : 

 the anterior borders of the carpus of both pair, and the posterior border of the 

 merus of the 2nd pair are spinulose : the dactylus is long, curved, slender, and 

 perfectly nude, that of the 3rd pair, which is a little longer than that of the 

 2nd, is equal to the two preceding joints combined. 



The right vas deferens is a long tube ending in along lax curling filament, 

 the left is also of good length. 



Colours in spirit : ivory-white with some faint orange spots on the legs. 

 Length of carapace about 8 millim 

 The shell is a species of Mtirex. 



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Between the Maldives and C. Comorin, 824 fath. " Investigator.' 



5. Nematopagurus squamichelis, n. sp. Plate XII., fig. 1. 



Gastric region nude except for a couple of long seta; on the rostrum. 

 Rostrum broad, rounded, obsolescent, but more prominent than the blunt 

 antennal angles of the carapace, leaving the ophthalmic segment exposed. 



Eyestalks depressed, very broadly piriform, about two-thirds the length 

 of the anterior border of the carapace, considerably shorter than the antennal 

 peduncle. Eyes very large, reniform. Ophthalmic scales distant, very small, 

 bluntly bifid at tip. 



The peduncle of the antenna is quite, or nearly, as long as that of the 

 antennule : antennal acicle curved, sparsely setose, reaching the middle of 

 the terminal joint of the peduncle : fiagellum very long, almost nude. 



Chelipeds subequal and similar, but the right is more massive in wrist and 

 hand than the left : they are about twice the length of the carapace, and, like 

 the legs, are very hairy : the carpus is as long as the merus and longer than 

 the palm, the palm is longer than broad, and the fingers of the right hand are 

 a little shortet;, while those of the left are a little longer, than the palm : the 

 merus has i or 2 spinules on its lower borders : the outer surface of the car- 

 pus and hand is closely covered with flat, squamiform, imbricating tubercles, 

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