R. DOUGLAS LAURIE—BRAGHYURA. 437 
Superfamily BRACHYRHYNCHA. 
Family PORTUNI Di. 
Genus CapHyra, Guérin, 1832. 
19. CaPHYRA MONTICELLIT, Nobili, 1901. (Plate 45. figs. 1, 1a.) See Nobili, 
1901, p. 10. 
Caphyra Monticellii, Nobili, loc. cit. 
Caphyra Monticelli, Nobili, 1906, p. 188. 
Locality. Station VIII. EH, 1 (2?) [48]. 
Remarks. Probably , the abdomen is missing. C.1.5 mm., C.b. 5°75 mm., 
C.b.+C.1.=1:15. The left hand is much more massive than the right: in 
the left cheliped H.l. (upper bord.) 4 mm., F.l. (upper bord.) 2°5 mm., 
lower border propus 6 mm. and H. height 2°75 mm. ; in the smaller cheliped 
the same measurements are 2°6, 2°6, 5, and 2 mm. respectively. 
There are small blunt tubercles on the upper inner border of the ischium 
of the cheliped instead of spinules. There are only two spines on the lower 
inner border of the ischium of the smaller (right) cheliped, there are two 
tubercles in this position on the larger (left) cheliped. The four spines on 
the lower anterior border of the merus of the left cheliped are equal in size 
and of the same type as on the merus of the right cheliped. The tubercle on 
the outer surface of the palm at the region of the carpo-propal articulation 
is blunt, not spiniform. The upper border of the palm is as described by 
Nobili, but neither the well-developed crest nor the traces of a second one 
are present on the outer surface of the palm. 
Thus this specimen differs from Nobili’s specimen essentially (a) in the 
size and relations of the chelipeds, the left being much the more massive and 
its fingers much shorter in proportion to the palm; and (/) in having the 
armature of the hands less sharp. 
The abdomen of the present specimen is missing. If my identification is 
correct and if the specimen is, as I take it to be,a male, then the above 
points of difference of the chelipeds from Nobili’s description, which was 
of a female, may be in some part sex-differences; they may also be in 
part related to size. Nobili’s type-specimen had C.l. 4 mm. and C.b. 
5 mm.; it was taken 25 miles north of Massowah in 1893. 
The front is asymmetrical in the present specimen, the outer tooth of the 
right frontal lobe being very inconspicuous, while that of the left lobe is 
distinct, though small. 
