76 STALK-EYED CRUSTACEA. 
Dimensions of largest specimen (male): length, 91 mm.; length of cara- 
pace, including rostrum, 43 mm.; breadth of carapace, 34 mm.; length of 
cheliped, 211 mm.; merus, 90 mm., carpus, 15 mm., basal part of chela, 
56 mm., dactylus, 42 mm. 
Station 3367. 100 fathoms. 13 males, 18 fem. (7 ovig.). 
feo Oona 15 males, 19 fem. (14 ovig.). 
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In M. iris A. M. Edw., the sete are iridescent, as in this species, but the 
rostrum lacks the lateral spines, and the supraocular spines are much longer, 
reaching beyond theeyes. From MW. wrasa A. M. Edw., which is also an irides- 
cent species, W/. refulyens differs in the shape of the hand, in the relatively 
shorter median rostral spine, which is provided with lateral spines, ete. 
Munida propinqua Fax. 
Plate XVALE, Vig. 1, 1. 
Bull. Mus. Comp. Zodl., XXIV. 178, 1893. 
The carapace of this species is rather flat; the rostral spines are sca- 
brous, the supraocular reaching to a point beyond the eyes; there is a promi- 
inent spine on the gastric area behind each supraocular spine, another on 
each side behind and external to these, and a pair of very small ones on the 
median line at the base of the rostrum ; besides these there are about four 
small spines on the anterior half of the carapace. The anterior lateral angle 
of the carapace is truncated, the lateral border seven-spined. The pleure of 
the abdomen are rounded, short, and broad ; the second abdominal segment 
is furnished with a transverse row of about eight spines, the rest of the seg- 
ments being destitute of spines; the terga of the second to the fourth seg- 
ments are very smooth behind the central transverse fossee. The first joint 
of the antenna is armed with a long spine, the second joint with one on each 
side. There is a minute spine at the antero-inferior angle of the carapace. 
The chelipeds are robust, setose, and spiny ; merus spiny on upper and inner 
parts ; carpus spiny on all sides; the hand is furnished with two rows of 
spines on the lower side, another along the middle of the outer face, and 
three irregular series along the upper side; both the fingers are spinulose. 
Ambulatory limbs setose, spiny along the superior and inferior edges. 
In small specimens the supraocular spines may be shorter than the eye- 
stalks. 
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