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young individtials ; tbe fourth lateral spine is nearly twice the length of the thii'd. The 

 carapace and legs are densely pubescent. 



A male of average size (from Madras) gives the following measurements : — carapace 

 (omitting spines) 31 mm. long, 27 mm. In-oad, third lateral spine 3 mm., fourth spine 

 5'5 mm., posterior median spine 4'5 mm., first ambulatory leg 60 mm. long. 



Distrilmtion. South India, Singapore. 



Genus Stexocionops, Latreille. 



9. Stenocionops CERVicoRyis (Herbst). 



S. cervicornis (Herbst), Mihie-E'clwards, Hist. Nat. Crust, t. i. p. 338(1834). 



Tuticorin, four femak^s (one with ova), three males {Thurston). 



The carapace, rostral spines, ambulatory legs, and in males also the abdominal segments 

 carry numerous tufts of strong curved hairs (each hair is about 3 mm. long) which help 

 to form an attachment for the numerous sponges, hydroids, ascidians, &c., with which 

 the specimens are beset. In the male the rostral spines are scarcely more marked than 

 in the female, but the posterior prolongation of the carapace is narrower and more 

 upturned, and the chclipedes are stronger, with a wider hiatus between the fingers. 



The largest male has the carapace (not including rostral sjjines) 12 mm loug and 2!) 

 mm. broad, the rostral spines 25 mm. long. The largest female is somewhat larger. 



Bisti'ilmtlon. Mauritius [Milne-Edwards). 



Genus Egeria, Latreille. 



10. Egeria arachnoides (Rumpli.). 



E. arachnoides (Rumpli.), Miers, 'Alert' Crust, p. 191 (1884). 



( — E. jndica, Leach, E. Herbstii, Milne-Edwards) . 



Madras, common {J. B. H.); Gulf of Martaban [Oates). 



There is great variation in the relative size and acuteness of the spines or tubercles on 

 the carapace of this species. In all the sjoecimens a small spine is present at the distal 

 end of the mcropodites of the chelipedcs and ambulatory legs. In a single large specimen 

 (a female with the carapace 30 mm. long and 23 mm. broad) the two most posterior 

 tubercles oh the middle line of the carapace are prolonged into rather prominent spines, 

 as well as the last branchial tubercle. 



The carapace of an average spechuen (female) is 19 mm. long and ICi mm. broacl, 

 the second ambulatory leg 95 mm. long. 



Distribittiou. N. & N.E. Australia, ]\lalay Archipelago, Cliina. 



Genus IIyastexus, White. 



11. Hyastenus Pleione (Herbst). 



H. Pleione (Herbst), Do Man, Brock's Crust, p. 225, taf. vii. fig. 3 (1888). 



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