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angle of the orbit. The external suborbital lobe is obsolete. Infra- 

 orbital crest inconspicuously crenulated. In the outer maxillipeds 

 the exog-nath is always smooth ; the endognath sometimes pubescent. 

 Chelipeds large, smooth; meros with ciliated margins; carpus obtuse' 

 within; hand broad, little convex, smooth within; fingers somewhat 

 gaping, denticulated within. Ambulatory feet sparsely hairy, to- 

 mentose toward their extremities ; dactyli robust, sulcated. Color 

 dark yellowish brown, often covered with a blackish incrustation. 

 Dimensions of a male: Length of carapax, 0.56; breadth, 0.68 inch. 

 This species lives in holes in gravelly mud, along the shores of 

 ponds of brackish water, at the mouths of streams. Found in Port 

 Llo3'd, Bonin Island. 



Genus ACM^OPLEURA Stimpson 



In the characters of the orbits, antennae, abdomen, etc., this genus 

 agrees with Cyclograpsus — at least with that section of it in which 

 the orbits are nearly complete below. The lateral margins of the 

 carapax are entire. The outer maxillipeds, howler, nearly re- 

 semble those of Hcterograpsus, being destitute of an oblique pilifer- 

 ous crest; their sides are straight; the meros-joint is square, equal- 

 ing the ischium in length, and marked on its surface with a some- 

 what oblique sulcus which is not continued on to the ischium ; the 

 palpus is prosarthroid, and finally the exognath is narrow. The 

 hands are lanose at or between the bases of the fingers. 



This genus, being founded upon a single small specimen, needs 

 further illustration. The characters above mentioned forbid its 

 being included in any genus previously described. 



216. ACM^OPLEURA PARVULA Stimpson 



Plate XT, Fig. 4 



AoncBoplcura parvula Stimpson, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., x, p. 105 

 [51], 1S58. 



Carapax flat, broadest at the antero-lateral angles. Length to 

 breadth as i: 1.105. Surface smooth, except anteriorly, where it is 

 minutely rugate and moderately curving downward. Median gas- 

 tric sulcus distinct. Front rather prominent, its margin somewhat 

 convex. Antero-lateral margin acute. Infraorbital crest broadly 

 3- or 4-lobed ; lobes smooth. Chelipeds equal, smooth externally : 

 hand with three or four strong granules at the. middle of the inner 

 surface and a lanose surface externally between the bases of the 



