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Inhabiting shells of Bathybembix wood-masoni, Turbo indicus, Natica, and 

 other species, which are encrusted with a sea-anemone. 



Arabian Sea, 430, 464, 487, 595-556, and 719 fathoms. 



T. , -VT 8820 2394 3745-3748 



Regd. Nos. : : 35 . 



5. ParapClffUrUS minutllS, Henderson. 



Parapagurus mtnutui, Henderson, J. A. S. B., Vol. LXV. pt. 2, 1896, p. 531. 



ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE ZOOLOGY op THE INVBSTIGATOB, CRUSTACEA, PLATE XXXII. FIG. 3. 



" In this minute species, which appears to be fully adult, as shown by the 

 presence of eggs, the largest example has the carapace, chelipeds, and legs 

 glabrous with a white porcellanous aspect. In the smaller specimens there is a 

 slight pubescence on all the above named parts, including the eye-stalks, where 

 the hairs may be rather long. Hairs are met with in this last situation even in 

 the largest specimen. 



" The anterior portion of the carapace is glabrous and regularly convex, 

 with the exception of a slight wrinkling antero-laterally. The median frontal 

 projection is scarcely indicated. The eye-stalks exhibit considerable basal dilata- 

 tion, and the narrowed apex carries a reduced but deeply pigmented cornea. 

 The ophthalmic scales are minute, and terminate in a subacute point. The 

 antennal peduncles slightly exceed the eye-stalks ; the acicle is almost straight, 

 ciliated, and faintly spinose on its inner margin ; the external prolongation of the 

 second joint exhibits considerable depth, and its apex can scarcely be termed 

 acute. The antennular peduncles' exceed the eyestalks by more than the length 

 of the last peduncular joint this however is almost a generic character. The 

 antennal flagellum is apparently not longer than the body, if as long. 



" The right chelipede has the joints of a white porcellanous aspect. The 

 hand (omitting the fingers) is slightly longer than the carpus, but the proportion 

 seems to vary slightly in different specimens. The length of the hand is not 

 quite twice its breadth. In the largest specimen the joints of the chelipede are 

 almost smooth, there being only a faint denticulation, or almost granulation, 

 visible on the margins of the hand and fingers, but in other specimens there is 

 a regular minute serration, and in these cases the margins are thinner or less 

 rounded. In some cases minute granules are visible on the under surface of the 

 hand and wrist. In one or two examples the tip of the dactylus is bent under 

 that of the immobile finger. The smaller or left chelipede extends to about the 

 middle of the hand of the larger chelipede, and in some cases even to the articula- 

 tion of the dactylus. 



" The ambulatory legs are unarmed, though faintly pubescent, especially the 

 terminal portions of the dactyli. The dactyli are not quite twice the length of 

 the propodi. 



