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If times, the length of the carapace, and their* surface is everywhere 

 finely granular, except on the fingers, which are of the same form and 

 proportions as in N. plicata : the arm is trigonal, with all the edges 

 sharp, and the outer edges of the wrist and hand are coarsely, but dis- 

 tinctly, carinate. 



The legs have the merus, carpus and propodite faintly cavinate 

 dorsal ly. 



The abdomen of the male consists of 3 pieces, the large middle 

 piece having a subterminal denticle. 



Colours in spirit, uniform light brownish. 



The ovigerous female has the carapace 8 millim. long and 8'5 

 millim. broad : the male is slightly smaller. 



Persian Gulf, 52 fathoms, dredged by Mr. W. T. Blanford, F. R. S., 

 to whom the Indian Museum collections owe so many valuable 

 additions. Also from the Mekran coast. Six specimens are in the 

 Indian Museum. 



25. Nursia nasuta, n. sp. Plate VII. fig. 6. 

 Resembles N. blanfordi in almost all its characters, especially in 



having the carapace nearly as long as broad, and the front in the form 

 of a large curved foliaceous snout ; but differs in the following parti- 

 culars : — 



(1) the front is sharper and even longer, and in shape is pointed- 

 ovate : 



(2) the ridges of the carapace are little granular, and the oblique 

 ridges that cross the hepatic regions are obsolescent : 



(3) the outer edge of the wrist and of the hand are raised each 

 into a thin shai'p high crest : 



(4) the size is even more minute, the largest specimens (ovigerous 

 females) having the carapace from 5 to 6 millim. long and from 5'25 

 to 625 millim. broad. 



Log. Off the Malabar coast, 28 fathoms. Two adult males and 

 6 adult females. 



26. Nursia persica, n. sp. Plate VII. fig. 7. 



Carapace about nine-tenths as long as broad, its lateral margins 

 expanded and cristifoim, but not scallopped, only sinuous (much as in 

 N. abbreviata), forming three shallow lobules on either side : posterior 

 margin laminar, perfectly straight, with a spot of dark red (in spirit) 

 pigment in the middle line. 



The carapace, which is rather strongly convex, is traversed longi- 

 tudinally, in the middle line, by a broad sharp-edged ridge that ends 



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