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which is a large male, has the hands enlarged and the immo- 

 bile ringer so bent and hollowed in its basal half that the 

 movable finger meets it only near the tip, the movable ringer 

 being furnished with a serrated tubercle that occupies, without 

 filling, the hollow of its fellow. 



Munidopsis ? rosacea, A. Milne-Edwards. 



Galathodes rosaceus, A. Milne-Edwards, Recueil de Figures de Crus- 

 tacea, pi. xiii. fig. 1. 



Two hundred and thirty-seven specimens from off the 

 Travancore coast, 430 fathoms, are almost certainly identical 

 with the ' Travailleur ' species. 



Our young female specimens, the size of the female figured 

 by Milne-Edwards (which is stated to be enlarged three 

 times), agree exactly with that figure; but in our adults the 

 chelipeds are modified in a way that is not quite alike in any 

 two out of over a hundred specimens. 



In adults one or, more usually, both of the chelipeds are 

 much, but very variably, thickened, especially in respect of 

 the hand. Further, in certain adult males of no pre-eminent 

 size the immobile finger of one or, more usually, both hands 

 is bent and hollowed in its basal half, so that the fingers 

 meet only near the tip, as in the adult male of the preceding- 

 species. 



If this species be not the Munidopsis (Galathodes) rosacea 

 of Milne-Edwards, at any rate it, like that species, has Muni- 

 dopsis [Galathodes] tridentata, Esmark, for its nearest 

 relative. 



Munidopsis Hemingi, sp. n. 



Near M. ornata, Faxon. 



Carapace convex, broader behind than in front, covered 

 with squamiform tubercles in no very conspicuous transverse 

 arrangement, the regions well defined ; a pair of tubercles on 

 the anterior part of the gastric region are acute. 



Rostrum short, simple, triangular, carinate ; anterior 

 border of carapace with a blunt tooth, antero-lateral border 

 cut into three teeth, posterior border unarmed. 



Abdomen unarmed, smooth, the second and third terga 

 transversely bicarinate. 



Eyes slightly movable, a tiny papilliform spinule at their 

 inner angle. 



Inner border of merus of external maxillipeds armed with 

 two large spines. 



Chelipeds in the female (male unknown) equal, as long as 



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