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long, is 3-times as long as thick ; it is armed at the distal end with 4 spines, a 5"^ occurs on 

 the middle of its inner border and it presents also several acute granules tipped with long fine 

 hairs like on the merus and arranged in longitudinal rows. The slender chela is i i^j nini. 

 long and the fingers, the apices of which pass farther beyond each other when closed than in 

 the other species, appear just as long as the palm; the latter widens somewhat distally, so 

 that it is 2^3 nini. broad near the articulation of the fingers, about half as broad here as it 

 is long. The outer border of the chela is straight until the curvation of the apices and the 

 palm is covered with rather sharp granules, that are tipped each with a fine long hair. The 

 fingers are smooth, somewhat hairy and their cutting-edges are finely denticulate along their 

 whole length. 



The fingers of the 2"^^ legs measure about one-third of their palm, those of the 3''^ pair 

 measure one-fifth the whole length of the chela ; there is no sharp tooth at the distal end of 

 the propodite of the 5"^ pair. 



General distribution: Off Dobba, Aru Islands (Spence Bate) ; Arabian Sea (Alcock). 



