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length, have the palm carinate along the upper edge, and the fingers 

 slightly separated when closed. 



In the female the chelipeds are not stouter than the other legs, 

 are not much longer than the carapace proper, and have the fingers 

 closely apposable throughout. 



Of the ambulatory legs the first are much the longest, being nearly 

 half again as long as the carapace and rostrum ; while the last two 

 pairs are very short and have their dactyli reduced in length, increased 

 in strength, and strongly recurved. 



Male. Female. 



millim. 



Loc Off Malabar coast, 406 fins. 



Scyramathia beauchampi (Alcock and Anderson). 



Anamathia heauchampi, Alcock and Anderson, J. A. S. B., 1894, Pt. ii. p. 185. 



Body and legs downy, and with numerous large coarse curly clavate 

 hairs, which are very regularly arranged on the legs, where also they 

 are coarsest and closest. Carapace sub-triangular, with the following 

 armature : — 



On either hepatic region a great up-curved earlike spine (without 

 any bullous base). On either branchial region, posteriorly, a strong 

 up-turned spine ; and anteriorly, near the middle line, a smaller coarse 

 tooth. On the gastric region four sharpish tubercles. On the narrow 

 sunken cardiac region a coarse sharp tooth. On the posterior border, in 

 the middle line, a coarse granule. 



The rostrum consists of two more ($) or less ( c?) divei-gent 

 spines, the length of which is about one-third that of the rest of the 

 carapace. 



The eyes are small, and are almost devoid of pigment : they are 

 to some extent hidden beneath a pre-ocular tooth of moderate dimen- 

 sions, and are retractile against a larger laterally-compressed post- 

 ocular plate. 



The antennae are completely exposed, from the base of the second 

 joint of the peduncle. 



The chelipeds in the male are massive, and in length are more than 

 half again as long as the carapace and rostrum : all their joints, from 



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