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defined antero-lateral margin. The hands are glabrous externally and sparingly 

 punctate ; curved spinules are present on the margins of the ambulatory legs. 



The carapace is 11 mm. long and 15 mm. broad ; the third ambulatory leg is 33 mm. 

 long. 



The genus Hypophthalmits, Richters (in Lenz and Richters' 'Beitrag zur Krustaceen- 

 fauna von Madagascar'), is, as pointed out by Miers, synonymous with Scalopidia, 

 and the H. leucochirus, Richters, apparently differs but little from Stimpson's species. 



Distribution. Hong Kong, 5 fathoms {Stimpson). 



Genus Cardisoma, Latr. 



126. Cardisoma carnifex (Herbst). 



C. carnifex (Herbst), De Man, Max Weber's Crust, p. 285 (1891). 



( = C. Urvillei, Milne-Edw.). 



Tuticorin {Thurston) ; Ceylon (Daly). A very common species found burrowing near 

 the margins of the S. Indian backwaters (J. D. H.). 



Distribution. From E. Africa to the Pacific (Samoa, Eijis, Sandwich Is., &c). 



Genus Telphusa, Latr. 



127. Telphusa indica, Latr. 



T. indica (Latr.), Milne-Edwards, Crust, in Jacquemont's ' Voyage dans i'lnde,' p. 7, pi. ii. fig. 1 

 (1844); A. Milne-Edwards, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. t. v. p. 184 (1869). 

 T. cunicularis, Westwood, Trans. Ent. Soc. vol. i. p. 183, pi. xix. fig. 1 (1836). 



Very common in hill-streams at Kotagiri and elsewhere on the Nilgiri Hills, at an 

 elevation of about 6000 feet (J. B. H.). 



I sent a specimen to Prof. A. Milne-Edwards, who kindly informed me that it was 

 referable to T. indica, the types of which are preserved in the Paris Natural History 

 Museum ; it is also identical with T. cunicularis, examples of which from Dukhan, 

 Western Ghats, are in the collection of the British Museum. 



The postfrontal ridge is strongly marked and continuous, being well marked even 

 behind the inner canthus of the eye, and only interrupted by the mesogastric furrow ; 

 the cervical groove is also Avell defined. The carpal spine of the chelipedes is acute. 

 The ischial line on the outer surface of the external maxillipedes is absent or faintly 

 defined, and not prolonged to each end of the joint. The penultimate segment of the 

 male abdomen has the lateral margins straight. The colour is a dark, almost black 

 brown, paler in the young. 



The carapace of a female is 35 mm. long and 50 mm. broad ; of a male, 34 mm. long 

 and 49"5 mm. broad. 



Distribution. India : Western Ghats (Poona, &e.) ; South-east Berar ; Chota Nagpur ; 

 Ranigunj ; Parisnath Hill, at an elevation of 3000 feet ; Morar ( Wood-Mason). 



