MUNIDOPSIS SUBSQUAMOSA. 85 
Munidopsis vicina Fax. 
Plate XVIII. Fig. 2, 2. 
Bull. Mus. Comp. Zodl., XXIV. 181, 1893. 
Near M. ciliata, from which it differs as follows: it is a very much smaller 
species, the adult ovigerous female being only twenty-nine millimeters long ; 
the anterior margin of the propodite of the ambulatory appendages bears two 
very prominent spines; on comparing the telson of JZ. vicina with that of 
M. ciliata a marked difference is apparent in the division of the telson by 
sutures, — a difference most readily comprehended by a glance at Figs. 2 and 
3 of Plate XVII. The pair of long and narrow plates which lie on each side 
of the small central plate in MZ. ciliata are entirely wanting in MW. vicina. As 
in MW. ciliata, the carapace of M. vicina is covered with squamoid tubercles, the 
rostrum is curved slightly upward, and the chela is short. 
Length, 29 mm.; breadth, 9.5 mm. 
Station 5360. 1672 fathoms. 1 fem. 
<S8382. 1793 « 1 fem. ovig. 
The specimen from Station 3360 is a smoother, less setose form than the 
specimen from Station 3382. 
Munidopsis subsquamosa Henp. 
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 5th Ser., XVI. 414, 1885; Rep. Challenger Anomura, p. 152, Plate XVII. 
Fig. 4, 1888. 
Station 3360. 1672 fathoms. 1 male. 
ES ea 0) [el fy 1 fem. 
The rostrum is curved upward to a considerable degree in the “ Alba- 
tross”’ specimens (most strongly in the female), and there are but three 
spines on the gastric area, — two in a transverse line at the base of the ros- 
trum, and a smaller one in the median line a little further behind. The 
outer or lower margin of the hand, too, is more concave than in Henderson’s 
figure of MM. subsquamosa. 
The types of this species were taken off Japan in 1875 fathoms. A 
nearly allied form, JZ. subsquamosa pallida Alcock,* has been dredged in the 
Bay of Bengal, 1805 fathoms. 
* Ann, Mag. Nat. Hist., 6th Ser., XIIT. 331, 1894. 
