1898.] A. Alcock — Carcinological Fauna of India. 143 



felt — with longer hairs sometimes interspersed — against which the 

 lobules stand out like islands. (Occasionally there are some tufts of 

 long hair on the edge of some of the lobules). 



The exposed (dorsal) surfaces of the carpal and propodal joints of 

 the chelipeds and legs are lobulated in the same style as the carapace, 

 the lobules being granular and being isolated by deep felted grooves. 



The front is strongly deflexed, but somewhat prominent, and is 

 rather sharply bilobed. The tumid supra-orbital margin is broken by 

 two cross grooves, and is separated from the lower margin of the orbit 

 by a fissure. The antero-lateral borders are cut into four rounded 

 lobules of nearly equal size, by deepish fissures. Postero-lateral borders 

 not appreciably shorter than the antero-lateral, and little concave. 



The parts seen on the under surface are not conspicuously granular 

 or hairy. 



The basal antennal joint has its outer angle almost in contact with 

 the inner angle of the lower edge of the orbit. 



The edges of the legs (especially the upper edge) are fringed with 

 coarse hair — as also of the arm. 



The lower outer surface of the hand has the granules arranged in 

 lines, as is the case with most species of Actsea. Fingers blunt-pointed, 

 hollowed out at tip. 



Colours of well-preserved spirit specimens, yellow with the con- 

 vexities of some of the lobules orange-red ; the felt in the grooves 

 brown ; fingers dark brown with white tips. 



Five specimens from Ceylon, up to 34 fms., and four from the 

 Andamans, up to 36 fms. 



67. Actsea speciosa (Dana), Ortmann. 



Actseodes speciosus, Dana, U. S. Expl. Exp. Crust, pt. I. p. 198, pi. xi. figs. 4a-c : 

 Stimpson, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1858, p. 32. 



Actsea speciosa, A.Milne Edwards, Nouv. Archiv. du Mus. I. 1865, p. 274 ■ 

 Ortmann, Zool. Jahrb. Syst. VII, 1893-94, p. 455. 



Actseodes nodipes, Heller, Abhandl. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, XI. 1861, p. 9, and 

 SB. Ak. Wien, XLIII. 1861, p. 329, pi. ii. fig. 19, and Novara Crust, p. 17 : A. Milne 

 Edwards, Nouv. Archiv. du Mus. I. 1865, p. 274 : de Man, Notes Ley den Mus. II. 

 1880, p. 172. 



I Psaumis glabra, Kossmann, Eeise roth. Meer., Crust, p. 27, pi. i. fig. 4. 



This species has a general resemblance to A. rufopunctata, but the 

 carapace is relatively longer and narrower, its lobulation is much less 

 complete and bold, and it is devoid of hairs. 



Length of carapace = f the breadth. 



Surface of carapace broken up by shallow grooves into numerous 



