Carcinolojical Fauna of India. 173 



The e} 7 es and orbits are visible in a dorsal view. 



The chelipeds and legs are closely crowded with large grannies 

 which on the under surface are smooth and vesiculous, and on the 

 upper surface are spiniform. The chelipeds in the female are about as 

 long as the carapace : the hands are about as long as the fingers : the 

 fingers are traversed by close rows of tiny granules nearly to the tip. 

 The legs are stout and short, with very slender hairy dactyli : in flexion 

 they are somewhat hidden by the carapace. 



Orange colour in spirit. 



Two females from a bottom of sand and shells, off the Ganjam 

 Coast, 28 to 30 fathoms. They do not seem to be quite adult, and the 

 carapace is 10 millim. long and 12 millim. broad. 



17. Actaeomorjpha lapillulus, n. sp. 



Carapace broader than long, strongly convex, crowdedly pustulous : 

 its regions are all well-defined by shallow grooves, and the branchial 

 and intestinal regions are also separated from the margin by shallow 

 grooves. The front is somewhat prominent, and is obscurely bilobed ; 

 the hepatic regions though dorsally sunken are angularly convex in the 

 autero-lateral margin, the lateral margins are coarsely and bluntly 

 three-lobed, and the posterior margin is thickened and somewhat 

 prominent. The eyes are hardly visible in a dorsal view. The under 

 surface of the body is closely granular. 



The chelipeds are everywhere nodular and pustulous, and the legs 

 are more or less granular on the under surface, and are covered on the 

 dorsal surface with crowded spiniform granules. The chelipeds in 

 the female are about as long as the carapace, and the hands are about 

 as long as broad and not much longer than the fingers. The leo-s 

 are stout and short, and are somewhat hidden by the carapace in 

 flexion, — that surface of the carapace being somewhat grooved by the 

 pressure of the meropodites. 



Colours in spirit : yellowish white, mottled with orange. 



Two males and a female from off Ceylon, 34 fms., and a female 

 from off Ceylon 32 fms., the bottom in both cases consisting of broken 

 coral and shells. 



The largest specimen — a female not quite adult — has a carapace 

 9 millim. long and 11 millim. broad. 



OreopJiorus, Ruppell. 



Oreophorus, Ruppell, Beschreibung, etc., Knrzschwiinzigeu Krabben des rothen 

 Meercs, p. 18(1830). 



Oreophorus, Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust. II. 130. 



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