Four speoimens, the largest of whioh lias the carapace >>'•'•> millim. long and 

 29'5 millim. broad, from off the Travaneore coast, !•:'•<» fathoms. 

 Colours in spirit orange, eyes intensely black. 

 Regd. No. - S, ~- ,M ' (Types of tin' species). 



18. l*ai"(iloinis indica, Aloook and Anderson, 



rarah>mis indica, Aloook and Anderson, Ann. Mag. Nut. Hist., Jan, 1899, l>. 16, 

 Illustrations ok the ZOOLOGT OF thb Invkstioatoii, OrOSTACEA, Plate M.lll. Flo. 2. 



Differs from /'. verrucosa in the Following respects : — 



The antero-lateral and lateral borders o\' the carapace are mere irregularly 

 and much more acutely spiny. 



The abdomen, behind the second segment, has its dorsal surface somewhat 

 creased, but not tuberculous. 



The eyes are relatively much larger. 



The movable antennal aeicle has only two spines, one of which is small, on 

 its outer border; the antennary flagella are nearly as long as the carapace. 



The ehelipeds and legs are relatively longer and slenderer; the wrist is 

 longer and its inner angle does not form a fohaceous lobe. 



Carpace piriform, convex, very slightly longer than broad; gastric, cardiac, 

 and branchial regions well defined, the gastric and branchial tumid and prominent, 

 the cardiac, though convex, a good deal sunken. The surface of the carapace, 

 as of the second abdominal segment, is studded with vesiculous, pustulous, and 

 conical tubercles of various si/.es. 



Rostrum very distinctly and evenly trifid and having a denticle on either 

 side near the base. 



Lateral margins of carapace, from the spiniform orbital angle to the 

 posterior bonier, armed with spines of various sizes; posterior border armed 

 with conical tubercles of uniform si/.e. 



Eye-stalks with a few denticles dorsally. Antennulary peduncles smooth. 

 Antennal peduncle with the first two joints spiniform at the outer angle, the 

 flagellum about as long as the carapace. 



The movable antennal aeicle, which reaches slightly beyond the end of the 

 antennal peduncle, ends very acutely; its outer edge bears a spinule and a large 

 spine, its inner cd^e bears three small spines. 



Chelipeds and legs spiny, especially on the dorsal surfaces. The right 

 cheliped is distinctly stouter, and the right legs are distinctly longer, than the 

 left. The legs, which are nearly a dactylus longer than the chelipeds and rather 

 less massive than the left cheliped, are about l| times the length of the carapace. 



