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lobules, which fall into series that appear to radiate from the midcardiac 

 region. The lobules are closely covered with miliary granules, they 

 are nowhere very convex, and on the posterior third of the carapace 

 they are indistinct. Although the carapace looks quite bare to the 

 naked eye, yet its whole surface — both between the granules and in 

 the grooves between the lobules — is covered with a fine, extremely 

 short and inconspicuous felt. 



The exposed surfaces of the carpal and propodal joints of the legs 

 and chelipeds (except the lower outer surface of the hand, which is 

 granular in lines) has exactly the same style of sculpture and texture 

 as the antero-lateral part of the carapace. 



Two fissures in the upper edge of the orbit, but none between this 

 and the lower edge of the orbit. 



Antero-lateral borders four-lobed, — the lobes subequal and shallow. 

 Postero-lateral borders distinctly shorter than the antero-lateral and 

 distinctly concave. 



The basal antennal joint falls far short of the inner angle of the 

 floor of the orbit. 



Edges of legs and chelipeds quite free from hair. 



Fingers pointed, very slightly hollowed at tip. 



Colours in spirit, yellow. 



3 specimens from the Persian Gulf, Ceylon, and Andamans are in 

 the Indian Museum. 



68. Actsea ruppellii (Krauss) Hilgendorf. 



Aegle ruppellii, Krauss, Siidafr. Crust, p. 28, pi. i. fig. 1. 1843. 



Actsea ruppellii, A. Milne Edwards, Nouv. Archiv. du Mus. I. 1865, p. 270 : 

 Hilgendorf in v. d. Decken's Heisen Ost Afr. III. i. p. 73, and MB. Ak. Berl. 1878, 

 p. 787 : Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) V. 1880, p. 232, and Zool. H. M. S. Alert, 

 pp. 183, 209: A. 0. Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool., XX. 1886-90, p. 109: 

 Henderson, Trans. Linn. Soc, Zool., (2) V. 1893, p. 358 : Ortmann, Zool. Jahrb., 

 Syst., VII. 1893-94, p. 454 : de Man, Zool. Jahrb., Syst., VIII. 1894-5, p. 499. 



Aegle rugata, Adams and White, Samarang Crust, p. 43, pi. viii. fig. 5. 



Actaea rugata, A. Milne Edwards, Nouv. Archiv. du Mus. I. 1865, p. 269, and 

 IX. 1873, p. 192: R. Etheridge jr., Mem. Austral. Mus. No. 2, 1889, pp. 33, 35: 

 de Man, Notes Leyden Mus. XIII. 1891, p. 1, and in Weber's Zool. Ergebn. Niederl. 

 Ost-Ind. II. 1892, p. 277 : Whitelegge, Mem. Austral. Mus. III. 1897, p. 129. 



Actsea rufopunctata, de Man (nee Edw.) Archiv. fur Naturges. LIII. 1887, i . 

 p. 261, and Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool., XXII. 1887-88, p. 26 (see Notes Leyden Mus. 

 XIII. 1891, p. 1). 



Carapace | as long as broad ; it and the exposed surfaces of the 

 legs covered with a shaggy coat — consisting of a sponge-work of short 

 bristles amid which are numerous long silky tangled hairs — which has 



