290 Carcinological Fauna of India. 



Key to the Indian genera of Raninidae. 



I. Last pair of legs of normal size : antenna? with 

 a very stout peduncle that hides the antennules : 

 antennary flagellum long and stiff : — 



1. A well-developed rostral spine Notopus. 



2. A V-shoped excision in the carapace in place 



of a rostrum Cosmonotus. 



II. Last pair of legs abnormally small and slender 

 — almost filiform : antennary peduncle not com- 

 pletely hiding the autennules : antennary flagellum 

 small : — 



1. Fronto-orhital border more than half the width 

 of the carapace : sternum broad as far as the 

 third pereiopods : merus of the external maxilli- 



peds shorter than the ischium Raninoides. 



2, Fronto-orbital border less than half the width 

 of the carapace : sternum broad only as far as 

 the second pereiopods : merus of the external 

 maxillipeds a little longer than the ischium Lyreidus. 



Notopus, DeHaan. 



Kotopus, DeHaan, Faun. Japon. Crust, pp. 137, 138. 

 Notopus, Henderson, ' Challenger' Anomura,,p. 31. 



Carapace obovate or obconical in outline, strongly convex from 

 side to side, nearly smooth : regions undefined. Fronto-orbital border 

 more than half the breadth of the carapace. Eyes distinct, eyestalks 

 long slender and cylindrical, orbits oblique. 



Antennules much smaller than the antennae. Antennae with a long 

 very stout peduncle and long stout flagellum, the peduncle concealing 

 the antennulary peduncle. Merus of the external maxillipeds a little 

 shorter than the ischium, and having its inner border thickened and 

 raised. Sternum broad between the chelipeds and then suddenly be- 

 coming very narrow. Last pair of legs of normal size, arising a little 

 in advance of the penultimate pair. 



The abdomen in both sexes has all 7 terga separate. 



108. Notopus dorsipes, (Fabr.) DeHaan. 



Pediculus marinus, Eumph, Amboin. Rariteitk. I. 29, pi. x. fig. 3. 

 Hippa dorsipes, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. II. 475. 

 Albunea dorsipes, Fabricins, Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 397. 



Banina dorsipes, Latreille, Hist. Nat. Crust, et Ins. VI. 133, [and Eneycl. 

 Method. X. 268, pi. 287, fig. 2] : Milne Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust. II. 195. 

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