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Four specimens, the largest of which has the carapace 33 millim. long and 

 29'5 millim. broad, from off the Travancore coast, 430 fathoms. 

 Colours in spirit orange, eyes intensely black. 



Regd. No. E!i^i 6 (Types of the species). 



13. JParalomis indica, Alcock and Anderson. 



Paralomis indica, Alcock and Anderson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Jan. 1899, p. 15. 

 ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE ZOOLOGY OF THE INVESTIGATOR, CRUSTACEA, PLATE XLIII. FIG. 2. 



Differs from P. verrucosa, in the following respects : 



The antero-lateral and lateral borders of the carapace are more irregularly 

 and much more acutely spiny. 



The abdomen, behind the second segment, has its dorsal surface somewhat 

 creased, but not tuberculous. 



The eyes are relatively much larger. 



The movable antennal acicle has only two spines, one of which is small, on 

 its outer border ; the antennary flagella are nearly as long as the carapace. 



The chelipeds and legs are relatively longer and slenderer ; the wrist is 

 longer and its inner angle does not form a foh'aceous lobe. 



Carpace pirif orm, convex, very slightly longer than broad ; gastric, cardiac, 

 and branchial regions well defined, the gastric and branchial tumid and prominent, 

 the cardiac, though convex, a good deal sunken. The surface of the carapace, 

 as of the second abdominal segment, is studded with vesiculous, pustulous, and 

 conical tubercles of various sizes. 



Rostrum very distinctly and evenly trifid and having a denticle on either 

 side near the base. 



Lateral margins of carapace, from the spiniform orbital angle to the 

 posterior border, armed with spines of various sizes ; posterior border armed 

 with conical tubercles of uniform size. 



Eye-stalks with a few denticles dorsally. Autennulary peduncles smooth. 

 Antennal peduncle with the first two joints spiniform at the outer angle, the 

 flagellum about as long as the carapace. 



The movable antennal acicle, which reaches slightly beyond the end of the 

 antennal peduncle, ends very acutely ; its outer edge bears a spinule and a large 

 spine, its inner edge bears three small spines. 



Chelipeds and legs spiny, especially on the dorsal surfaces. The right 

 cheliped is distinctly stouter, and the right legs are distinctly longer, than the 

 left. The legs, which are nearly a dactylus longer than the chelipeds and rather 



less massive than the left cheliped, are about l| times the length of the carapace. 



