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There are some soft bristles on the chelipeds, and a few on the 
legs, and some very short and inconspicuous hairs on the carapace. 
Colours in life, pink. 
The carapace of a large egg-laden female is 19 millim. long and 
15 millim. broad. 
This species has frequently been taken in the Laccadive Sea and 
in the sea to the north of the Laccadives at depths ranging, from 740 to 
931 fathoms, on soft bottoms. 
In the Indian Museum are more than 30 specimens representing 
both sexes, both adult and in young stages. 
26. Hypsophrys longipes, Alcock and Anderson. 
Hypsophrys longipes, Alcock and Anderson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Jan. 1899, 
p. 6: Alcock, Investigator, Deep-Sea Brachyura, p. 15, pl. i. fig. 1. 
Rostrum deeply bifid. Linea anomurica distinct. 
Four large spines on the anterior border of the carapace—two close 
together at the base of the rostrum, one at either orbital angle. 
Lateral borders of dorsum of carapace well defined, spinulate; the 
ridge on the side-wall of the carapace that defines the branchial regions 
anteriorly is also spinulate. A row of spines on the hepatic region, the 
largest of which is on the lateral border of the carapace and has a spine 
dorsad of it. 
Gastric region obscurely subdivided, each lateral subregion is armed 
with 5 or 6 large spines, while on the median region there is a central 
spine sometimes followed by a row of spinules. Subhepatic and sub- 
orbital region with numerous large spines, one of which is “‘ antennal.” 
Eyes well pigmented. Antennal flagella more than twice the 
length of the carapace. 
Rows of spinules on the exposed surface of the ischium merus and 
exognath of the external maxillipeds, and a row on the basal joint of 
the antennules. 
Chelipeds slender, reaching not far beyond the end of the carpus of 
the first pair of legs, the arm and wrist not stouter than the meropod- 
ites of the first 3 pair of legs; spinate and spinulate as in the Breeds 
ing species ; fingers as long as the hand. 
The second and third pair of legs, which are slightly longer than 
the first and three times as long as the fourth, are four times the length 
of the carapace. In the first three pair of legs the merus is compressed 
and has its anterior border spinate and its posterior borders spinulate, 
the posterior border of the propodite carries a few distant articulating 
spinelets, and the dactylus—which is about two-thirds the length of the 
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