1898.] A. Alcock — Carcinological Fauna of India. 105 



hand carries a blunt but well-marked crest along its upper border, 

 below which the surface is rugose much as the wrist : the lower part 

 of the outer surface of the hand is tuberculous, the tubercles tending 

 to a linear arrangement. The fingers are fluted, bear strong molariform 

 teeth and tufts of hair on their cutting edge, and have blunt-pointed, 

 hollowed out (spoon-like) tips. The furrows of the wrist and hands, as 

 well as those of the legs, are filled with close short fur. 



The merus carpus and pro pus have the upper edge strongly cari- 

 nate, the inner surface of each crest bearing a thick fringe of long 

 somewhat silky hair : the dorsal surface of these joints is furrowed 

 longitudinally, with many more or less plain transverse impressions 

 also : the dactvli are hairy up to the claw. 



In life the animal is beautifully spotted and ocellated with chocolate 

 brown on a bluish-grey ground. Iu spirit the animal has a chinaware 

 look and a dull yellowish- white colour, with darker yellow and dull 

 brownish spots and markings. 



In the Indian Museum are 30 specimens from the Andamans and 

 Laccadives. 



32. Zozymus pilosus, A. Milne Edwards. 



Zozymus pilosus, A. Milne Edwards, Ann. Soc. Enfc. France (4) VII. 1867, p. 

 271 ; and Nouv. Archiv. da Mas. IX. 1873, p. 208, pi. vii. fig. 2. 



Carapace having the regions and lobules well defined in its anterior 

 two-thirds only : the lobules have a flattened semi-imbricate look, wavy 

 edges, and a rough or granular surface ; and the grooves that separate 

 them are filled with small short close-set bristles, especially along the 

 anterior contours of the lobules. 



All four lobes of the antero- lateral borders are rounded and not 

 dentiform. The orbital margin is not very tumid and is marked by 

 three suture lines. The front projects beyond the orbit. 



The wrist and hand are closely nodular : the nodules (those on the 

 hand especially) have a granular surface, and the grooves that separate 

 them are full of short close hair : the upper edge of the hand is not 

 crested. Fingers short, stout, blunt-pointed, hollowed at tip : they are 

 strongly fluted, the ridges being beaded in their basal half. 



The legs have the upper edge of the merus, carpus, and propodite 

 strongly crested : the crest of the merus and carpus may be subserrate, 

 and is always notched near the distal end. The dorsal surface of the 

 carpus and propodite is grooved and nodular — the nodules having a flat, 

 subimbricate look. 



Colours in spirit — yellowish-white, with a faint bluish or purplish 

 blush; the crest-like margin of the carapace lighter than other parts; 

 fingers dark brown with white tips. 

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