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areas, especially on the upper surface. There is a good deal to be said iu favour of 

 Miei*s's view, that it is probably only a variety of T. Admete, to which species it was 

 originally referred by Audouin ; the amount of granulation certainly varies considerably 

 in a series of specimens. 



The largest male is 12*5 mm. long and 19 mm. broad, and the largest female is nearly 

 the same size ; but some females with ova are of much smaller size, a disparity which 

 has been noted by De Man. 



Distribution. Red Sea (Savigny, Miers), Mergui (De Man), N.W. Australia (liters), 

 New Caledonia (A. Milne-Edwards). 



106. Thalamita sima, Milne-Edw. 



T. sima (Milne-Edw.), A. Milne-Edwards, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. t. x. p. 359 (1861). 



{ = T. arcuatus, De Haan). 



Tuticorin, two females with ova ( Thurston). 



I refer these specimens with some hesitation to T. sima, and possibly they belong to 

 a distinct and undescribed species. The first three antero-lateral teeth are very broad 

 basally, and merely separated by narrow fissures, with their apices subacute, whereas in 

 the typical T. sima, as figured by De Haan, these teeth are more prominent and acute, 

 with wider intervening fissures. The carapace is finely granulated and the elevated 

 lines rather poorly marked ; the front is regularly arcuate, with the median notch 

 scarcely represented. The outer surface of the hand is almost smooth. In T. Chaptali, 

 Aud., which is recorded by Miers from Ceylon (' Alert ' Crust, p. 231), and in which the 

 antero-lateral teeth are also obtuse, the last tooth, unlike what is seen in our specimens 

 and in the typical form, is slightly smaller than the preceding tooth. 



The larger specimen is 10 mm. long and 14'5 mm. broad. 



Distribution. Malay Archipelago, China, Japan, New Caledonia, Australia, and New 

 Zealand. 



107. Thalamita Integra, Dana. 



T. Integra, Dana, Crust. U.S. Explor. Exped. pt. 1, p. 281, pi. xvii. fig. 6 (1852) ; A. Milne-Edwards 

 Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. t. x. p. 358 (1861). 



Tuticorin (Thurston); Eameswaram, not uncommon (/. H. H.) ; Gulf of Martaban 

 ( Oates). 



In this species a characteristic dark band encircles the fingers near their apices, but 

 the apices themselves are white. 



Distribution. E. Africa, Malay Archipelago, and the Pacific (Eiji, Sandwich Is., 

 &c). The var. africana of Miers occurs in the Atlantic area (Senegarabia and 

 Canaries). 



108. Thalamita sexlobata, Miers. 



T. sexlobata, Miers, 'Challenger' Bracliyura, p. 196, pi. xvi. fig. 2 (1886). 

 Tuticorin, a male (Thurston). 



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