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Carapace: Broad, breadth about 1.6 times length with very diver- 
gent anterolateral borders and very convergent posterolateral borders. 
Apart from ridges, covered with long sparsely arranged hairs, beneath 
which, in frontal region, beaded granules are concealed. Frontal 
ridges small and rounded; protogastrics short and inconspicuous; 
mesogastrics well developed, separated in midline, and each concave 
Ficure 35.—Thalamita spinimera, new species, holotype: a, front; d, left third walking leg, 
perspective view; c, left fifth leg. (Scales=a, b, c, 5 mm.) 
anteriorly. Epibranchials well developed and interrupted at cervical 
grooves but not medially. Two cardiacs, broadly separated in mid- | 
line. Two short but conspicuous mesobranchials. 
Basal antennal joint: Obliquely inclined, shorter than width of | 
orbit (ca. 0.8 times), and with short but conspicuous crest bearing | 
three spines. | 
