MUNIDA GRACILIPES. Ui 
Length, 84 mm.; carapace (including the rostrum), 45.5 mm.; breadth, 
26 mm.; length of cheliped, 96 mm. 
Station 3384. 458 fathoms. 11 males, 6 fem. (ovig.). 
SG Bote ollie y x66 1 male. 
< 3404. 385 « 1 male juv. 
This species resembles IM. valida Smith and I. miles A. M. Edw., but the 
carapace of M. propinqua is flatter, the cardiac area is more distinctly cireum- 
scribed by a furrow, the abdomen bears spines on the second segment only, 
and the abdominal segments are not so much sculptured. 
Munida gracilipes Fax. 
Plate XVI., Fig. 2-2. 
Bull. Mus. Comp. Zodl., XXTV. 179, 1893. 
Carapace rather flat and quadrangular. Supraocular spines less than 
one half the length of the rostrum, shorter than the ocular peduncle. 
Four spinules on the gastric area arranged in the form of a square,—two 
behind each supraocular spine; a longitudinal row of obsolescent spinules 
in the median line from base of rostrum to the cardiac area; one spine 
on the cardiac region, a pair on the intestinal region, and one on each side of 
the cardiae region just back of the cervical suture. The lateral margins of 
the carapace are armed with about seven spines, the first of which is the 
largest. The second abdominal segment is armed with a transverse row of 
six spines, the third with a row of four, the fourth with a row of four, and 
one median spine behind the transverse row. This is the normal arrange- 
ment, but in one specimen out of the four there is an additional pair of 
spines on the second and third segments back of the transverse row. The 
pleure of the third, fourth, and fifth abdominal segments are acute. Eyes 
very large, reniform. The chelipeds are very long and slender, the merus 
spinose (the chief of the spines being on the inner side of the joint), the 
carpus also is spinose. The hand has about eight spines on the upper mar- 
gin and one on the lower; there are several acute spines on the outer border 
of the movable finger, the cutting edges of the fingers are straight, finely 
denticulated or spinulose. 
Length, 24 mm.; breadth, 8 mm.; length of cheliped, 34 mm. 
Station 3391. 153 fathoms. 4 specimens. 
Munida gracilipes is nearly allied to MW. stimpsoni A. M. Edw., which it 
