NIKA EDULIS. 



DEC APOD A. 



MACROURA. 



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ALPHEAD^E. 



Nika edulis. Risso. 



Specific Cliaracter. Didactyle hand longer than the wrist ; both straight. Cen- 

 tral plate of the tail longitudinally channelled. 



Nika edulis. 



Processa canaliculata, 



edulis, 

 Nika canaliculata. 



Risso, Crust, de Nice, p. 85 , t. iii. f. 3. Hist. Nat. de 



1'Eur. Merid. V. p. 72. Roux, Crust, de la Me"dit. 



t. xlv. LAM. Hist, des Anira. sans Vert. V. p. 203. 



DESMAR. Consider, surles Crust, p. 230. EDW. 



Hist, des Crust. II. p. 364. 

 LEACH, Malac. Brit. t. xli. 

 LATH. Reg. Anim. de Cuv. (ed. 2nd) IV. p. 95. 

 DESMAR Consid. sur les Crust, t. xxxix. f. 4. 



THE whole of the carapace and abdomen of this species 

 is even arid glabrous ; the carapace evenly rounded, some- 

 what compressed, terminating in a short, pointed, slightly 

 carinated rostrum ; a short acute point above the outer 

 edge of the orbit. Plate of the external antennae of almost 

 equal breadth throughout its length ; obliquely truncated at 



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