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squamous, and very sli^litly hairy. The chelipcds in the 

 male — in which sex they are not quite symmetrical — exceed 

 the length of the fully extended body, measured with the 

 rostrum, by rather more than a carapace length, and in the 

 female by half a carapace Icngtii ; the mcrus aud carpus and 

 the propus in its palmar portion are covered with large 

 thorns ; the lingers, which do not quite equal the palm in 

 length, are evenly and finely toothed, and the immobile finger 

 has also several distant spines along its outer margin, and at 

 the base of the terminal claw a pair of small teeth, between 

 which the tip of the dactylus closes. 



Of the second, third, and fourth thoracic legs the merus has 

 both its margins and the car{)us its front margin thorny, the 

 posterior margin of the carpus having only a long terminal 

 spine, while the propus and dactylus have their posterior edge 

 serrated for a series of miimte articulating spinules. 



The first pair of abdominal legs in tiie male have the usual 

 development. 



Colour in life milky pink. 



Several males and females from Station 112, 561 fathoms. 



The largest male measures 45 millim., and the largest 

 female 43 millim., from the tip of the rostrum to the end of 

 the telson. 



This species has also been dredged off Colombo in 675 

 fathoms. It appears to be gregarious. 



I have to separate provisionally from this species, as 

 illustrating a variety, two large males which only differ from 

 the above type in the nature of the chelipeds : — 



79. Munida microps, var. lasiocheles^ nov. 



Diflfers from M. microps only in the structure of the cheli- 

 peds, which (in the male) are markedly unequal, one (the 

 right in one individual, the left in the other) exceeding its 

 fellow by nearly the whole length of the dactylus. 



The chelipeds are very densely furred, except on the short 

 ischium, and are from nearly twice to two and a half times 

 the length of the fully extended body measured with the 

 rostrum ; they are thorny, much as in M. microps^ except 

 that the thorns are relatively smaller, especially on the 

 propus, and most of all on the propus of the larger cheliped, 

 where they are almost entirely hidden in the thick fur. The 

 fingers are not much more than half the length of the palm ; 

 and while in the smaller claw they are straight, closely 

 apposed, and otherwise the same as in M.. microps, in the 



