18 Major A. Alcock and Capt. A. K,. S. Anderson on 



Family Galatheidae. 



Munida, Leach. 



Munida comorina, sp. n. 



Seems hardly to differ from the Caribbean Munida caribwa, 

 A. M.-Edw. (which Faxon says is the same as M. irasa, 

 A. M.-Edw.), having, like it, a long denticulated rostrum, no 

 cardiac spine, and a smooth abdomen. 



Dorsal surface of carapace transversely striated and bearing 

 eight spinules, namely a pair behind each supraocular spine, 

 one on either side behind and external to the first pair, and 

 one on either side just beyond the bifurcation of the cervical 

 groove ; but all these spines need careful looking for with a 

 lens. 



Rostrum well over half the length of the rest of the cara- 

 pace and about three times as long as the supraocular spines 

 (and, like them, acicular), finely and obscurely denticulated 

 in its distal half. 



Abdomen perfectly smooth. 



The two spines on the dilated portion of the antennular 

 peduncle are long and slender. Eye-stalks barrel-shaped, 

 eyes not reniform. 



Chelipeds slender, twice the length of the fully extended 

 body and rostrum and twice the length of the longest legs ; 

 distant spines along the inner aspects of the arm and wrist, 

 and distant spinules along the inner border of the hand ; 

 fingers straight, but in some males the immobile finger is 

 excavated and slightly bent at base for the reception of one 

 or two enlarged teeth of the dactylus. 



The fully extended body is only 15 millim. long. 



Thirty specimens, from off the Travancore coast, 430 fath. 



Munidopsis, Whiteaves. 



Munidopsis trifida, Henderson. 



Munidopsis trifida, Henderson, ' Challenger ' Anomura, p. 156, pi. xvi. 

 fig. 2. 



We have already reported this species, which was originally 

 discovered by the ' Challenger ' in the fjords of western Pata- 

 gonia, as also occurring in Indian seas ; and Capt. Anderson 

 has again this year dredged two fine specimens in the Andaman 

 Sea at 498 fathoms. 



One of these (an egg-laden female) agrees in every parti- 

 cular with Henderson's description and figure ; the other, 



