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exceedingly broad and spathulate, and though the inner flagellum en sheathes 

 the outer, they are hardly deeply enough channelled to form a tube by their 

 apposition. 



The exopodite of the external maxilliped is not much more than half the 

 length of the ischium of the endopodite and is hardly larger than the exopodites 

 of the legs. The exopodite of the 2nd maxillipeds is also small and filamentous, 

 being shorter than the merus of the endopodite. 



The " thelycum " is not at all conspicuous. The "andricum" of the 1st 

 pair of abdominal appendages consists of two equal lobes forming a canal by 

 their apposition. 



In the largest female the carapace and rostrum are 46 millim. in length, the 

 extended abdomen is 69 millim. in length measured in the mid-dorsal line. 

 Colour in life, bright pink. 



Bay of Bengal from Chittagong to near Madras, 65 to 276 fathoms : Arabian 

 Sea, from the Indus Delta to the Malabar coast, 108 to 124 fathoms. 



-d -, AT 4266-4269 4278 42S0-428S 7049-7063 /m „ ,, . v 6729 



Regd. Nos. — = — : — : — 7 — : — - — (Types of the species): ~: 



8485-8486 326-332 804-805 1164 3399 , . ,. 



— § — : -15 - : ~W : ~ : To" ( man y specimens). 



Subgenus Parasolenocera, Wood-Mason. 



Paraxolenocera, Wood-Mason, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Oct. 1891, p. 276. 



The number and disposition of the branchia? and epipodites, and the almost 

 rudimentary character of the exopodites of the 2nd and 3rd maxillipeds, are 

 exactly as in Solenocera, from which Parasolenocera differs only in the following 

 minor characters : — (1) the foliaceously-expanded antennular flagella, though 

 otherwise as in Solenocera, gradually taper to a filament, instead of being 

 truncated or abruptly acuminate : (2) the 2nd and 8rd abdominal terga form a 

 distinct hump. 



5. Solenocera (Parasolenocera) annectens, Wood-Mason. 



Parasolenocera annectens, Wood-Mason, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Oct. 1891, p. 276. 

 Illustrations of the Zoology of the Investigator, Crustacea, Platk XLIX. Fig. 6. 



Glabrous, polished. Rostrum strongly ascendant, armed dorsally with 7 

 teeth not including one on the gastric region, not produced backwards as a 

 carina farther than the middle of the carapace, its tip reaches to the end of the 

 2nd joint of the antennal peduncle. 



Cervical groove deep, interrupted only at the gastric carina : branchial 

 regions defined dorsally by a sinuous groove. 



