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The chelipeds in the female are equal ; the . fingers are compressed and 

 pointed, not hollowed. 



The legs are long and slender, the propodite and dactylus of the last pair 

 strongly compressed and a little broadened. 



This form is most nearly related to Eiirycarcinus. 



Nectopatiope rhoclohaphes^ Wood-Mason. 



Nectopanope rhodohaphes, Wood-Mason, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. March, 1891, p. 261 : Alcock, J. A. S. B. 

 Vol. LXVII. pt. 2, 1898, p. 213, and 111. Zool. Investigator, Crnst. pi. xxxviii. fig. 6. 



Carapace about f as long as broad. Front extremely obscurely grooved in 

 the middle line. Antero-lateral border cut into three thin sharp-edged teeth, of 

 which the first is broad and rounded and confluent with the orbit, the second is 

 broad and anteriorly acuminate, and the third almost spiniform. 



Chelipeds smooth : in the female they are equal and are a little over If times 

 the length of the carapace : arm with an acute spine near the far end of the upper 

 border ; inner angle of wrist acute, spiniform ; fingers thin, compressed, pointed 

 and hooked at tip, armed with thin, laciniate teeth, the thumb very broad. 



Legs thin, the first three pairs not much shorter than the chelipeds, with 

 long compressed-styliform dactylus : the last pair a good deal shorter, with thin 

 blade-like propodite and dactylus closely fringed with hair. 



Colours in spirit uniform yellowish white : in hfe pink, with a dotted, 

 V-shaped, white mark between the gastric and branchial regions. 



In the Indian Museum is a single female specimen from off the Godavari 

 coast 98-102 fms. 



Nectopaybope longipes, which was provisionally referred to this genus by 

 Wood-Mason, who had insufficient material for examination, turns out, now that 

 numerous good specimens have been dredged by the " Investigator," to be a 

 Catometope belonging to the genus Garcinoplax. 



Sub-family Enphiinas. 



Sphenomeeides, Wood-Mason and M, J. Rathbun. 



[ Sphenomeeus, Wood-Mason. ] 



Sphenomerus, Wood-Mason, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. March, 1891, p. 233 : Alcock, J. A. S. B. Vol. LXVII,, pt. 2, 

 1898, p. 227 : Sphenomerides, M. J. Rathbun, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XI. 1898, p. 164. 



Carapace transversely oval or subcircular, the front and antero-lateral 

 margins forming together a semicircle; markedly convex in both directions, 

 perfectly smooth, without trace of regions. 



