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smootli, thougli sparsely punctate, aud the outer (posterior or 

 upper) margin is rounded. The fingers have a punctate surface 

 and the inner edges are sharp, a little hairy and minutely 

 denticulated. 



The ambulatory legs are sparsely punctate, but otherwise 

 quite smooth and glabrous. 



The cephalothorax of the larger specimen is IO5 millim. broad 

 and 11|- millim. long (from the posterior margin of the carapace 

 to the anterior margin of the buccal cavity). 



Grenus Philtea, Leach. 



111. Phil YEA scabeiijscula, Fair. 



Leucosia scabriuscula, Fabricius, Suppl. Entom. p. 349. 



Phil)Ta scabriuscula, Milne-Edwards, Hist. Wat. Crustaces, t. ii. p. 132, 

 pi. XX. figs. 9 and 10 ; Bell, I. c. p. 299 ; de Man, Notes from the 

 Ley den Museum, vol. iii. p. 126. 



A male specimen found at Sullivan Island agrees with my 

 published description of this species quoted above. 



In this individual, however, the branchial, cardiac, and in- 

 testinal regions are not uniformly covered with granules, as in 

 the Atjeh specimens, described by me (Z. c), but a small spot on 

 the middle of the cardiac region and another on either side of 

 the branchio-cardiac sutures are devoid of granules. The granu- 

 lation of the upper surface of the carapace would therefore 

 appear to be somewhat variable. 



Pliilyra scabriuscula has been recorded from Zanzibar {JELil- 

 gendorf), Madras (Novara-Beise), Atjeh and Amboina {de 

 Man) ; it may probably therefore be found to occur elsewhere 

 in the Indian Ocean and Malayan Archipelago. 



112. Philtea plattcheiea, de ILaan. 



Philvra platycheira, de Haan, Fauna Japanica, Crustacea, p. 132, tab. 

 xxxiii. fig. 6. 



There are five specimens (one adult male, three young males, 

 and one sterile young female) of this species in the collection. 



The cephalothorax of the adult male is 16 millim. long (the 

 epistome included). In this specimen the upper surface of the 

 cephalothorax is sparsely punctate and under a lens is seen to 

 be minutely granular on the sides of the branchial regions. 



