MARINE CRUSTACEANS. 



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shorter black bristles arising among the granules, the front bent strongly downwards, not much 

 arched or very strongly notched in the middle 

 line ; the anterolateral edge with four low lobes, 

 the first being confluent with the orbital angle ; 

 the orbit with two notches in its upper rim 

 and one in the lower; the under side of the 

 body furred, and grooves running from between 

 the lobes of the edge over the finely granular 

 pterygostome; the posterolateral edge not marked 

 by a row of granules ; the chelipeds subequal, 

 the wrist and hand lobulated above, the hands 

 swollen, rounded and covered with granules out- 

 side and inside, the fingers short, much arched, 

 not compressed or hollowed at the tip, with a 

 few blunt teeth on the opposed edges and some 

 granules at the base of the moveable one, which 

 is furrowed, though not to the tip; and the 

 walking legs covered with granules, hairs and 

 bristles like those of the carapace and with a 

 furrow on the hinder side of the cai-popodite." 



Length : 7 mm. Breadth : 10 mm. Colour 

 in spirit : white with red spots ; the fingers black 

 with white tips, the black spreading over a great 

 part of the inner and outer sides of the palm. 



The species is allied to A. Mrsutisdma (Ruppell), 1830, and A. kraiissi Keller, 1861, but 

 may be distinguished firom both by the shape of the hands. 

 Dredged in 15 fathoms in Fadifolu Atoll. 



Fio. 53. Actaea lata; n. whole animal, 0. outside of hand. 



Fio. 54. Actaea variolosa ; a. whole animal, 6. outside of hand. The animal is drawn rather broader than 



it actually is. 

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