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In the Indian Museum are 32 specimens, from the Anclamans (up 

 to 36 fath.), the Maldives (15-30 fath.), and Ceylon (3J.fath.). The 

 carapace of the largest female is 13 millim. long and 15 broad. 



132. Palicus Whitei (Miers). 



Cymopolia Whitei, Miers, Zool. H. M. S. "Alert," pp. 518, 551, pi. xlix. fig, C. 



At once distinguished from P. Jukesii, which it closely resembles, 

 by the sharper and more prominent lobes of the front, and by the 

 slenderer form of the first 3 pairs of legs, in which the edges of the 

 meri are not serrated, the antei-ior borders of the carpi are not cristiform 

 and the propodites and dactyli are not in any way subfoliaceous their 

 edges not being produced to form high thin carinas. 



Other differences, to be noted on closer inspection, are the follow- 

 ing:— 



The transverse arrangement of the rugge of the carapace is not 

 marked: the faint transverse carinsB of the 5th and 6th abdominal 

 terga are absent. 



In the Indian Museum are 2 adult females and a non-adult female 

 from the Andamans. 



133. Palicus Wood-Maso7ii, n. sp. 



Carapace with the regions distinct and areolated in high relief : 

 except posteriorly, the areolaa have no tendency to arrano-e themselves 

 transversely : the convexities of the areolae, but not the interspaces 

 bear clumps of crystalline granules. 



Front cut into 4 teeth, the middle pair naiTower, slightly more 

 prominent, and on a rather lower plane than the others : lateral border 

 of the carapace cut into three teeth, including the very large and acute 

 orbital angle : posterior border raised and irregularly lobulate. 



In the upper border of the orbit there are thi'ee deep notches, in 

 the lower border a notch and a fissure. 



There is only one cheliped in the single specimen known : it is 

 short, not stouter than the legs, and has some blunt denticles on the 

 far end of the arm, on the wrist, and on the upper surface of the hand. 



In the first 3 pairs of legs the meri are stout and have a granular 

 dorsal surface and coarsely serrulate edges, the anterior edge ending in 

 a coarse spine; the carpi are dorsally carinate, and their anterior edge 

 has the form of a tAvo-lobed crest ; while the propodites and dactyli are 

 elongate and compressed with thin, but not ciistiform, plumed edges. 

 The filamentous 4th pair are granular up to the dactylus, which is not 

 much shorter than the propodito. 



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