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almost straight. The whole of the carapace and the sternum 

 are covered with hairs, which are particularly long- and strong 

 over the anterior and lateral borders. The cardiac region is 

 not depressed, and the branchio-cardiac lines, which are well 

 marked, do not meet in front. The front of the carapace is 

 four-toothed, the teeth equal in length, but the median being 

 more widely separated from one another than they are from 

 the lateral. The widest and deepest space is that between 

 the lateral teeth and the external orbital spine, which is long, 

 slender, acutely triangular, and extended forwards beyond the 

 tips of the rostral spines, and is directed slightly outwards. 

 The eyes are small, well pigmented, situated on moderately 

 sized, freely movable eyestalks, which extend well beyond 

 the angles of the orbital sinuses. 



There is no distinct epistome. Antennules folded obliquely. 



The bases of the antennas moderately developed. Fla- 

 gellum short. The outer maxillipeds have the ischium pro- 

 duced at its antero-internal angle ; the merus articulates with 

 the next joint at its antero-external angle and has its antero- 

 internal angle rounded. The exognath is long, slender, and 

 narrowed anteriorly. 



The chelipeds are equal, more than three fourths the length 

 of the first pair of ambulatory legs. Palm and ringers taken 

 together are twice the length of the carpus. Fingers not as 

 long as the palm. The chelse fit well and there is no space 

 at the base. 



The first pair of ambulatory legs are longer than the cheli- 

 peds (24 : 19^) and the second than the first, but the dispro- 

 portion is much less than in some allied forms. The last 

 two pair of legs are small, covered with hair, and have small 

 recurved dactyli. The abdomen in the female is 7-jointed, 

 in the male 5-jointed, owing to the coalescence of the third, 

 fourth, and fifth segments. 



Colour (in spirit) yellowish white. 



6. 



mill i in. 



Length of carapace 15 



Breadth of carapace 15 



Length of chelipeds 19f 



„ first ambulatory legs 24 



„ second ambulatory legs 28| 



A female and a young male dredged at Stations 267 and 

 268 in between 500 and 600 fathoms, lat. 7° 02' 30" N. and 

 7° 36' 00" N., and long. 79° 36' 00" E. and 78° 05' 00" E. 

 respectively. 



