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Carapace of much the same proportions and outline as A. tomentosa, 

 but the frontal outline is more convex, and the postero-lateral borders 

 are a little less concave. 



The surface of the carapace is very completely areolated by deep 

 smooth grooves, the lobules being exceedingly numerous, strongly convex, 

 and closely covered with pearly granules ; and between and around the 

 bases of the granules are many short black bristles which do not form 

 a coat or conceal the texture of the carapace. 



The exposed surfaces of the chelipeds and legs are granular and 

 bristly, like the carapace ; and the carpal joints, and to a less extent 

 the propodites are dimpled, but not distinctly nodular, above. 



Under surface of carapace granular, hairy, and furrowed by grooves 

 continued from fissures that subdivide the antero-lateral borders into 

 four shallow lobes. The surfaces of the external maxillipeds and distal 

 abdominal terga are bristly, those of the sternum and proximal ab- 

 dominal terga are hairy. 



Fingers bluntly pointed but not hollow at tip. 



Colours in spirit, yellowish, fingers and greater part of hand black. 



In the Indian Museum are a specimen from Samoa, a specimen 

 without locality, and a specimen from the Andamans or Nicobars. 



66. Actsea rufopunctata, (Edw.) Heller. 



Xantho rufopunctatus, Milne Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust. I. 389 : Lucas, Expl.. 

 Sci. Algerie, Anim. Artie, p. 11, pi. ii. fig. 1 : A. Milne Edwards in Maillard's l'ile 

 Reunion Annexe F, p. 4. 



Actsea rufopunctata, A. Milne Edwards, Nouv. Archiv. da Mus. I. 1865, p. 268,. 

 pi. xviii. figs. 1, la : Richters in Mobius Meeresf. Maurit. p. 145 : de Man, Notes 

 Leyden Mus. II. 1880, p. 172 and III. 1881, p. 96: Miers, P. Z. S. 1881, pp. 63, 68 ; 

 and Zool. H. M. S. Alert, pp. 517, 528 ; and Challenger Brachyura, p. 122 : Carus, 

 Prodr. Faun. Medit. I. p. 513 : R. I. Pocock, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) V. 1890, p. 75 : 

 J. R. Henderson, Trans. Linn. Soc., Zool., (2) V. 1893, p. 357 : Ortmann, Zool. 

 Jahrb., Syst., VII. 1893-94, p. 454 ; and in Semou's Forschungsr. (Jena. Denk. 

 VIII.) Crust, p. 50. 



Actsea nodosa, Stimpson, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y. VII. 1862, p. 203 ; and 

 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. II. 138 : A. Milne Edwards, Nouv. Archiv. du Mus. I. 1865, 

 p. 266, pi. xvii. figs. 6-6c; and Exp. Sci. Mex., Crust, p. 245; and Bull. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool. VIII. p. 11 : Desbonne and Schramm, Crust. Guadaloupe, p. 25 : J. S. Kingsley, 

 Proc. Acad. Philad. XXXI. 1879, p. 393. 



Carapace broad, ovoid, its extreme length not quite £ but more 

 than f its extreme breadth : its surface is broken, by deep and broad 

 grooves, into numerous (about 27 excluding those round the orbits and 

 the front) very convex lobules, which are covered very closely with 

 large vesiculous granules ; the grooves are filled with a dense short 



