254 CRUSTACEA. 



near the eyes. Anterior feet subequal ; carpus obtuse ; arm acute 

 or rectangular at inner apex, and the margin denticulate, teeth 

 quadrate. Eight posterior feet all slender, coxae and following 

 joints very narrow, subcylindrical. 



Plate 15, fig. 1, animal, enlarged. 

 From the coral reef, Carlshoff Island. 



Length, two and a half lines. Colour flesh-red, areolated with a 

 few deep-red irregularly curving lines. These lines form two deep, 

 contiguous U-shape curves over the anterior part of the carapax, ad- 

 joining the front margin, which together are somewhat like the letter 

 td, thus inverted. Anterior legs of the same colour; fingers brownish 

 black. u The tarsus is about half as long as the preceding joint. 



TRAPEZIA BELLA. 



From subinteger, obsolete sinuosits, crenatwis sex obsoletis. Pedes antici 

 subaequi, nudi, carpo obtuso ; articulo tertio apicem internum acuto, 

 (rectangulato) , marginemque regulariter serrulato, denticulis triangu- 

 latis. Pedes octo postici graciles, articulis tertio et sequentibus tenuibiis, 

 subcylindricis. 



Front subentire, obsoletely sinuous, six obsolete crenatures. Anterior 

 feet subequal, naked; carpus obtuse, third joint with inner apex 

 acute (rectangular), and inner margin regularly serrulate, teeth 

 triangular. Eight posterior feet slender; third and following joints 

 slender, subcylindrical. 



Plate 15, fig. 2, animal, enlarged. 



Coral reefs of Carlshoff Island, Paumotu Archipelago. 



Length, two and a half lines. Colour flesh-red, dotted minutely 

 with deeper red, both over carapax and legs ; fingers brownish. This 

 species resembles closely the speciosa; but the teeth of the arm are 

 not quadrate. The tarsus is about half the preceding joint in length. 



