146 A. Alcock — Carcinological Fauna of India, [No. 1, 



(5) the postero-lateral borders are more concave : 



(6) the dorsal surfaces of the chelipeds and legs are crisply granu- 

 lar, but the carpal joints show almost no dimpling and the propodal 

 joints none at all. 



In the Indian Museum are 2 specimens from the Malacca Straits 

 and one from Bombay. 



70. ? Adsea pulchella, A. Milne Edwards. 



Adsea pulchella, A. Milne Edwards, Nouv. Archiv. du Mus. I. 1865. p. 273, 

 pi. xvii. figs. 5-5&. 



? Actseodes modestus, de Man, Archiv. fur Naturges. LIII. 1887, i. p. 257, pi. ix. 

 fig. 3. 



This species, if my identification be correct, resembles Adsea 

 riippellii and obesa, but has the following differential characters : — 



(1) the carapace is altogether less convex : 



(2) the lobulation of the carapace is defective posteriorly, and is 

 faint anteriorly owing to the fineness of the grooves : 



(3) the entire surface of the carapace and dorsal surface of legs 

 and chelipeds is covered (though not crowded) with crisp granules, 

 most of which carry a short bristle — but these bristles are not close 

 enough to form a coat : 



(4) the antero-lateral borders are sharply granular, but their 

 lobulation is very indistinct : 



(5) except for a furrow across the wrist parallel with the articula- 

 tion of the hand, the sharply granular surface of the chelipeds and legs 

 is unbroken. 



In the Indian Museum are three specimens from Mergui, the Anda- 

 mans, and Ceylon. 



71. Adsea parvula, (De Haan), de Man. 



Menippe parvulus, De Haan, Faun. Japon. Crust, p. 21 : Krauss, Sudafr. Crust, 

 p. 34, pi. ii. fig. 2. 



Adsea parvula, de Man, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zooi*, XX. 1887-88, p. 27. 



Carapace more than § as long as broad, with the posterior third or 

 more depressed, perfectly flat, and almost or quite devoid of areolation ; 

 its surface is everywhere covered with vesiculous granules, which 

 become very small posteriorly, and with a fine short velvety hair : the 

 areolation is fairly profuse and quite distinct in the anterior two-thirds. 



Antero-lateral borders divided into four granular lobes : postero- 

 lateral borders less convergent than in any other species of Adsea, 

 giving the flattened posterior part of the carapace a most abnormal look 



