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13. Liomera cinctimana, (White), Dana. 



Carpilius cinctimanus, White, in Jukes Voyage H. M. S. " Fly," Vol. II. p. 336, 

 pi. ii. fig. 3, and Samarang Crust, p. 37, pi. vii. fig. 4. 



Liomera cinctimana, Dana, Silliman's Journ. (2) XII. 1851, p. 124, and U. S. 

 Expl. Exp. Crust, pt. I. p. 161 : A. Milne Edwards Nouv. Archiv. du Mus. I. 1865, 

 p. 219, and IX. 1873, p. 176, pi. v. fig. 4, and Exp. Sci. Mex. Crust, p. 240 : Stirnpson, 

 Ann. Lye. New York, X. 1874, p. 103. 



Carjpilodes cinctimanus, Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) V. 1880, p. 234 : 

 Henderson, Trans. Linn. Soc, Zool., (2) V. 1893, p. 354. 



Liomera lata, Dana, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci.. Philad. 1852, p. 73, and U. S. ExpL 

 Exp. Crust.pt. I. p. 161, pi. vii, figs 6a-d: Stirnpson, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 

 1858, p. 32, and Ann. Lye. New York, X. 1874, p. 104 : Heller, Novara Crust. 

 p. 9 : A. Milne Edwards, Nouv. Archiv. du Mus. I. 1865, p. 220, and Exp. Sci. Mex., 

 Crust, p. 240: F. Muller, Verh. Ges. Basel. VIII. p. 474. 



Carapace extremely broad — its length only about T 8 T of its breadth 

 — its surface, like that of the appendages, everywhere smooth and 

 polished, showing only the faintest indications of a gastro-cardiac region 

 and of oblique lobulation of the branchial regions : the antero-lateral 

 border is divided into three coarse lobes, the anterior of which is again 

 obscurely divided into two. 



Front obliquely deflexed, with a rather prominent convex edge 

 cleft in the middle line. Orbital margin with three radiating suture- 

 lines near the outer angle. Chelipeds equal. 



Colours in spirit ; orange-red, fingers black, hand with a broad 

 black cross-band merging with the black of the immobile finger. 



3 specimens from the Andamans and Muscat (besides specimens 

 from Mauritius and South Sea Is.). 



14. ? Liomera sodalis, n. sp. 



Carapace broad (length about § breadth) very strongly convex, 

 perfectly smooth, without any indication of regions, its margins smooth, 

 entire. Front nearly vertically deflexed, its edge cleft in the middle line. 

 Eyes large, supra-orbital margin without any suture-lines. Chelipeds 

 a little unequal ; the upper and outer surfaces of the carpus and hand 

 of the smaller cheliped covered with prickly granules, but in the larger 

 cheliped the granulation has a very much worn appearance : fingers 

 hardly hollowed at tip. 



Legs (those that are present in the unique specimen) somewhat 

 hairy ; none of the joints are carinate though some have prickly granules 

 on the upper surface. 



Colours in spirit — of the same blotchy orange and reddish colour as 

 that of a species of Solenocaulon, in the hollow stem of which the crab 

 was found. 



