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The tip of the outer orbital angle is quite flush with the borders of the 

 orbit. The lateral epibranchial tooth also is extremely small and little 

 prominent — sometimes obsolescent. 



The epigastric and post-orbital crests, though otherwise similar, are not 

 nearly so sharp and salient; the epigastric crests are blunt, rugulose, and 

 oblique ; the outer and posterior of the two portions into which the true post- 

 orbital crests are divitled is often indistinguishable from the short oblique 

 wrinkles of the neighbouring part of the carapace. 



In the male abdomen the length of the 6th segment only equals its distal 

 breadth. 



The antennal peduncle is completely excluded from the orbital canthm, the 

 orbital gap being almost closed, and the antennal flagellum is vestigial and is 

 invisible without dissection. 



In the external maxillipeds the exopodite is barely longer than the 

 ischium. 



In the larger cheliped of the male the carpus is as smooth as the hand, and 

 the strongly-arched dactylus is as long as or longer than the palm. 



In the largest adults the carapace is just under Mhs inch long and just 

 over fWths inch broad. 



Though there are a good many specimens in the collection, they are old 

 and brittle and will scarce bear handling 



4071 ^ 



4 ■ \ ^"^ specimens of all ages. 



4077 f Kakhyen Hills. J. Anderson. 



~4 J 22 specimens of all ages. 



32. Paratelphusa (Phricotelphusa) gageii, Alcock. (Fig. 26.) 



This species is closely related to elegans and callianira. 



In life and in fresh spirit specimens the animal is, except on the 

 ventral surface of the legs, a dark greenish-purplish brown, sometimes almost 

 black. 



Carapace not much convex, its length about three-fourths its breadth, its 

 depth less than half its length ; its sm-face uneven, under a lens finely pitted ; 

 all along its lateral borders are very fine, short, oblique wrinkles and ridges 

 more or less continued from the side-walls. 



Cervical groove broad and deep where it defines the mesoga.stric area, 

 elsewhere only vaguely distinguishable as an inequality of level very imperfectly 

 defining the wings of the gastric region. The cardiac region can just be made 

 out, and the two small prsecardiac facets, though sunken, are distinct. In most 

 specmiens there are three shallow punched-out pits or scars on either side of 

 the gastric region. 



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