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broadened distally ; its upper border is spinulose, a very regular row of spines 

 runs all along its lower border and on to the fixed finger, and another longi- 

 tudinal raised row of spinules traverses the middle of its outer surface ; its 

 inner surface is granulous : the dactylus is shorter than the palm, the finger- 

 tips, which are calcareous, decussate, and the edges of the fingers are hairy. 



The slender left cheliped overlaps the base of the right dactylus : the 

 carpus is as long as the merus and nearly half again as long as the palm, and 

 the fingers are longer than the palm : there is a longitudinal row of spines 

 on the upper surface of the carpus, and, internal to it, an inconspicuous 

 longitudinal row of granules: both borders of the palm are granulous, and on 

 the outer surface of the palm there is a median longitudinal ridge which is 

 more or less granulous. Sometimes near the middle of the under surface of 

 the carpus there is a pin-hole foramen, as in the right carpus. 



The 2nd and 3rd legs, which are nude, considerably exceed the larger 

 cheliped : the dactyli are slender, curved, and about twice the length of the 

 propodites : the anterior borders of the carpopodites and propodites are 

 spinose. 



There are four abdominal appendages on the left side in the male. 



Length of carapace, 10 millim. Inhabits shells of Ranella, Nassaria, 

 Nassa. 



10 



(3 spec.) 



Orissa coast, 25 fath, 

 Ganjam coast, 26 fath. 

 Vizagapatam coast, 15 — 17 fath. ) 

 Off Colombo, 26i fath. 

 Off Malabar coast (Calicut), 68—148 fath. 



" Investigator.' 



5a. EuPAGURUs CARPOFORAMiNATUs, var. NEPHROMMA. Plate XL, fig. 4, 4a. 



This is a deep-sea variety and differs from the sublittoral type in the 

 following particulars ;— the eyes are larger and blacker ; the whole of the outer 

 surface of the right wrist is covered with coarse spines ; the left cheliped 

 reaches a little beyond the middle of the right palm only; the 2nd and 3rd 

 legs reach only a short way beyond the larger cheliped ; the pits on the under 

 surface of the carpopodites of both chelipeds are more conspicuous. 



Length of carapace 12 millim. Colour in spirit, ivory-white. 

 4296-7 



10 



Between Maldives and C. Comorin, 824 fath. 



" Investigator.' 



