MARINE CRUSTACEANS. 



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Length : 5 mm. Breadth : 7 mm. Colour in spirit : mottled purple and orange-brown, 

 fingers dark-brown with paler tips. 



Four female specimens were found under stones on the inner part of the reef-flat at Minikoi. 



Genus Lioxantho Ale, 1898. 



27. Lioxantho as-peratiis Ale., 1898. Alcock, iii. p. 92. 



The specimens agree exactly with Alcock's definition, excejit in not having hair on the 

 dactylopodites. 



Taken on the shore at Hulule, Male Atoll. 



28. Lioxantho tumidus, Ale, 1898. Alcock, in. p. 91. 

 Taken on the shore in Male and Goifurfehendu Atolls. 



29. Lioxantho punctatus (H. M. Edw.), 1834. Alcock, iii. p. 91. 

 Taken on the shore at Hulule, Male Atoll. 



Genus Liomera Dana, 1851. 



30. Liomera cinctimana (White), 1847. Alcock, III. p. 88. 

 Taken on the shore at Goidu, Goifurfehendu Atoll. 



Fig. 52. Liomera spinipes; a. whole animal, b. outside of band. 



31. Liomera spinipes, n. sp. (Fig. 52). 



Diagnosis : " A Liomera with the carapace smooth and polished, without a trace of regions, 

 rather more than half as long as broad ; the front divided into two well-marked rounded lobes 

 of simple outline ; the anterolateral edge sharp, almost crest-like in its hinder half, with traces 

 of the last two lobes only, not marked off by a tubercle from the posterolateral edge ; the orbital 

 i-im without notches; the antennal flagellum rather longer than the breadth of the orbit; the fore edge 



