110 



oblique sulcus; both regions are strongly granulate, and not 

 si^ined. 



The external maxillipeds have the ischium produced at 

 the internal distal angle; its surface is marked by a deep 

 longitudinal furrow. The merus is triangular, the external 

 distal angle is slightly prodviced, the internal distal angle 

 slightly truncated and very slightly insinuate; the lower bor- 

 der is thickened and prominent, and there is a pit about 

 the middle of the outer surface. The carpus is partially hid- 

 den by the internal angle of the merus. 



The pleon of the female is seven-segmented : all the seg- 

 ments are free, the terminal one is broadly triangular, with 

 the external margins slightly insinuate. The other segments 

 are m.edianly umbonate. 



The chelipeds in the female are weak, reaching a little 

 beyond the rostral horns; the merus is sub-cylindrical; the 

 carpus is noncarinate, the palm is scarcely compressed late- 

 rally; the fingers are moderately long, shorter than the palm, 

 thin, and sharp, the immobile one with distinct brownish 

 teeth, the mobile scarcely toothed; this appears to be slightly 

 excavate. 



The ambulatory legs are short, becoming successively 

 shorter behind, but not markedly so ; the}^ are moderately 

 robust and smooth, the meri appear distally rounded, the 

 carpi and propodi are together about as long as the meri 

 and ischii together, the dactyli are long — nearly as long 

 as the propodi — cylindrical, with long, thin, sharp, corneous 

 claws. 



Length, excluding rostral horns, 8 mm. 



Breadth, 5 mm. 



Length of cheliped, 8 mm. (drawn rather large in figure). 



Dredged bv Br. Verco. 104 fms., S.A. coast. 



Type (1). " 



CATAMETOPA. 



Family Ocypodid^. 



Sub-family Carcinoplacin^. 



Genus Litocheira, Kinahan. 



Litocheira glabra, n. sp. 



PI. ii., figs. 1, la ; and PI. hi., fig. 3. 

 The carapace is broader than long, about as 9 is to 

 7^, glabrous, smooth, with the regions not defined, with 

 some faint transverse markings on the gastric region, slightly 

 convex, more so in the longitudinal direction than in the 

 transverse, marked all round with a distinct border, ante- 

 riorly depressed. 



