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bare at low water, but one individual was dredged at a depth of 
two fathoms. 
There are tufts of setae on the carapace and abdomen of all 
the specimens; the males are small and do not possess the enlarged 
third maxillipedes and first peraeopods characteristic of well-grown 
examples of their sex. 
On close inspection the colouration of living specimens is 
very wonderful, resembling that of a tich Turkey carpet. At a 
casual glance, however, the animal is dull in tone and it is clear 
that the vivid tints blend and cause it to harmonise with its sur- 
roundings, just in the same way that the splashes of bright colour 
on gun-mountings are effective in rendering them inconspicuous. 
On the carapace and abdomen are numerous large ocellar 
spots of an irregular shape; in the centre these spots are buff, 
dotted with red and circumscribed with white and reddish orange. 
Between the spots are patches, irregularly lobulate in form, but 
symmetrical on either side of the animal. They are of a deep red- 
dish brown colour with numerous large bright blue spots. Each 
patch is sharply defined, its sinuous margin being outlined with 
black and pale grey. At the antero-lateral angle of the carapace 
there is a dull red spot. The rostrum, antennules and antennal 
scales are pale buff, barred with dark brown, the brown bearing 
numerous white flecks. The anterior two pairs of legs are reddish 
at the base; their distal segments and all segments of the last 
three pairs are pale yellowish green broadly barred with black. 
The tail-fan is obscurely mottled with brown and buff. 
The largest specimen, an ovigerous female, is only 36 mm. in 
total length. 
9569 Port Blair, Andamans. Salnemps Eleven. 
Genus Spirontocaris, Bate. 
Spirontocaris pandaloides (Stimpson). 
1907. Spirontocaris pandaloides, de Man, Trans. Linn. Soc., Zool., 
(2), IX, p. 418, pl. xxxii, figs. 47, 48. 
A number of examples of this species were obtained by Dr. 
Annandale during his recent visit to Japan from Mr. Kuma Aoki. 
The teeth on the rostrum vary from 8 to 10 on the upper border 
and from ro to 13 on the lower. 
9561 Misaki, Japan. Kuma Aoki. Fourteen, 
46-49 mm. 
Spirontocaris rectirostris (Stimpson). 
1907. Spivontocaris rectirostris, de Man, Trans. Linn. Soc., Zool., 
(2), IX, p. 411, pl. xxxu, figs. 31-34. 
Two fine specimens in Dr. Annandale’s Japanese collection 
(presented by Dr. S. Yoshida) agree very closely with de Man’s 
description of the male of this species. Both individuals have . 
only 5 teeth on the upper border of the rostrum; on the lower 
