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The legs are granular, the granules on the dorsum of the propodites car- 

 popodites and distal end of the meropodites being spiniform, as also on the 

 outer surface of the ischium and merus of the last pair : the dactyli are hairy. 



The 3rd-6th abdominal terga of the male are fused but are all very dis- 

 tinctly and independently recognizable, the 6tli has a terminal denticle. 



The largest male, dredged in the Andaman Sea at 350 fms., has the carapace 

 between 16 and 17 millim. long and 18 millim. broad (without spines). 



Bandallia pustulosa, Wood-Mason. 



Randallia pustulona, Wood-Mason, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. March, 1891, pp. 266 and 267, and Illastrations of 

 the Zoology of the ' Investigator ' Cnistacea, pi. v. fig. 4 : Alcock, J. A. S. B. Vol. LXV. 1896, pt. 2, p. 196. 



Carapace subcircular, subspberical ; covered with unequally large pustulous 

 tubercles the surface of whicb, like the surface between them, is finely and 

 closely granular under the lens ; all the regions are well defined by broad 

 grooves. 



The front is narrow and is broadly bidentate. The lateral margins are full 

 and inflated, and carry in the adult a series of tubercles, in the young a series of 

 blunt spines : in the antero-lateral margin, between the hepatic and branchial 

 regions, is a conspicuous notch, which corresponds with a groove or depression 

 in the pterygostomian face of the carapace. 



The short posterior border has a spine or dentiform lobe at either end, and 

 is overhung by the long spine in which the tumid intestinal region culminates. 



The whole under surface is densely granular in the yoimg male, but in the 

 female the fused 4th-6th abdominal terga and the inner half of the ischium of 

 the external maxillipeds are smooth. 



The chelipeds in the adult female and young male (adult male unknown) 

 are twice the length of the carapace and are everywhere finely granular. The 

 hand is subcylindrical and elongate, being half as long as the carapace ; the 

 fingers are stout and about as long as the hand, they are finely denticulate, with 

 enlarged denticles at regular distant intervals. 



The legs are stoutish and, to the naked eye, smooth : the dactyli are fringed 

 with hairs. 



In the (young) male the 3rd— 6th abdominal terga are fused but without 

 any obliteration of sutures : in the adult female the 4th-6th are fused and the 

 sutures obliterated. 



Carapace of an adult female about 31 millim. in either diameter. 



In the adult female the brood-pouch communicates with the branchial 

 chambers on either side by means of a foramen, as in Parilia. 



From the Andaman Sea, 240-220 fms., and 250 fms., and from the 

 Laccadive Sea, off the Travancore coast, 406 fms. 



