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HypSOphvyS super Ciliosa, Wood-Mason. 



Bypsophrys superciUosa, Wood-llason, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. March 1891, p. 2G9 : Illustrations of the Zoology 

 of the " Investigator," Crnst. pi. xiv. figs. 4, 4o, 1895. 



Rostrum simply pointed. Linea anomurica rather indistinct. 



Four small spines or teetli on tlie anterior (orbital) border of tlie carapace, 

 two being far apart at the base of the rostrum and one at either outer orbital 

 angle. Two, or all four, of these teeth may be obsolescent or obsolete. 



Lateral borders of dorsum of carapace not defined, except by a single 

 isolated spine on the hepatic region. Grastric region sharply subdivided into 

 three subregions, of which the lateral are somewhat nodular. Two or three 

 spines on the subhepatic and suborbital region, the innermost of which is 

 " antennal," also sometimes a few spinules. 



Eyes well formed and facetted, but pale. Antennal flagella about half again 

 as long as the carapace. 



The pediform external maxillipeds have their surfaces and edges devoid of 

 spines. 



Chelipeds slender, but much more massive than the legs, about half a hand- 

 length shorter than the first pair of legs in the adult male : spines and spinules 

 in rows on edges and on both inner and outer surfaces of arms, wrists and hands : 

 fingers about three-fourths the length of the palm. 



The second pair of legs, which are slightly longer than the first and third 

 and considerably more than twice the length of the fourth, are slightly more 

 than three times the length of the carapace. 



In the first three pair the meropodites are compressed with the anterior 

 border spiny and the posterior border much less strongly and profusely spiny, 

 the other joints are slender and unarmed except for a few articulating spinelets 

 at the far end of the posterior border of the propodite and in the basal half of 

 the posterior border of the dactylus, the dactylus is slightly shorter than the 

 propodite. 



The fourth (dorsal) pair are very slender and are unarmed except at their 

 cheliform ending : their propodite is many times longer than the dactylus. 



The terminal joint of the male abdomen is bluntly triangular. 



There are some soft bristles on the chelipeds, and a few on the legs, and 

 some very short and inconspicuous hairs on the carapace. 



Colours in life, pink. 



The carapace of a large egg-laden female is 19 millim. long and 15 millim. 

 broad. 



