1898.] A. Alcock — Garcinological Fauna of India. 141 



The basal antennal joint is broad, and its outer angle does not fall 

 very far short of the inner angle of the floor of the orbit. 



The legs, besides the felt and. the granules (which are conical 

 rather than vesiculous) already spoken of, have their edges — but chiefly 

 the anterior edge — fringed with coarse tufted hair: similar hair 

 occurs on the edges of the arm. 



The fingers are short, with broadly-rounded hollowed-out tips. 



Colours in spirit, as in life, blackish. 



In the Indian Museum are 115 specimens from the Nicobars, Anda- 

 mans, Palk Str., and Laccadives (besides 31 from Mauritius, Australia 

 and the South Sea Is.). 



64. Actsea areolata, Dana. 



Actgea areolata, Dana, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1852, p. 73, and U. S. Expl. 

 Exp. Crust, pt. I. p. 162, pi. viii. figs, la-b : A. Milne Edwards, Nouv. Archiv. dn 

 Mus. I. 1865, p. 264 : E. Nauck, Zeits. Wiss. Zool. XXXIV. 1880. p. 54 (gastric 

 teeth): ? Miers, Zool. H. M. S. Alert, pp. 182, 209: de Man, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool., 

 XXII. 1887-88, p. 25 : Zehntner, Rev. Suisse Zool. II. 1894, p. 147. 



Carapace in proportions and outline almost exactly similar to 

 A. tomentosa. Its surface and the exposed surfaces of the chelipeds and 

 legs is also covered as densely as possible with felt ; but this felt is 

 of a lighter colour, and it almost conceals the granulation, excepting 3 

 or 4 lines of granulation on the lower outer surface of the hands : the 

 felt also obscures, though it does not conceal, the areolation of the 

 carapace, owing to the lobules being less convex. 



Unlike A. tomentosa the upper surface of the wrist and hand are 

 nodular (as well as granular), and the fingers are long and pointed, 

 without any hollowing of the tip. 



In other respects this species closely resembles the preceding. 



One specimen from Mergui. 



65. Actsea hirsutissima (Riippell), De Haan, Dana. 



Xuntho hirsutissimus, Ruppell, 24 Krabben roth. Meer, p. 26, pi. v. fig. 6 : Milne 

 Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust. I. p. 389. 



Actxa hirsutissima, De Haan, Faun. Japon. Crust, p. 18 : Dana, U. S. Expl. Exp. 

 Crust, pt. I. p. 164: Heller, SB. Ak. Wien, XLIII. 1861, p. 314; and Novara Crust, 

 p. 9 : A. Milne Edwards, Nouv. Archiv. du Mus. I. 1865, p. 263, and IX. 1873, 

 p. 191: Kossmann, Eeise roth. Meer., Crust, p. 23: Targioni Tozzetti, Magenta 

 Crost. p. 37, pi. iii. fig. 26 : Richters in Mobius, Meeresf . Maurit. p. 145 : de Man, 

 Notes Leyden Mus. II. 1880, p. 173, and III. 1881, p. 96 : Cano, Boll. Soc. Nat. 

 Napoli, III. 1889, p. 189 : Ortmann, Zool. Jahrb., Syst., VII. 1893-94, p. 453. 



Length of carapace = | breadth. 



