1898.] A. Alcock — Cdrcinological Fauna of India. 147 



for an Actsea. Front deeply cleft into two round-pointed lobules. The 

 three grooves near the outer angle of the orbit are fairly distinct. 



Upper and outer surface of wrist and hand covered with pearly 

 granules and velvet : fingers pointed, not hollowed at tip. 



The exposed parts of the dorsal surface of the legs are also covered 

 with velvet which conceals their sharply granular sculpture. Last pair 

 of legs rather short. 



Colours in spirit yellow or brownish, fingers brown. 



In the Indian Museum are 3 specimens, from the Andamans and 

 Mergui. 



This species may be distinguished from all its congeners by the 

 very moderate difference between the two diameters of the carapace, 

 which also has its posterior part quite flat. 



72. Actsea cavipes, (Dana), A. Milne Edwards. 



Actseodes cavipes, Dana, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1852, p. 78, and U. S. 

 Expl. Exp., Crust, pt. I. p. 199, pi. xi. figs. 5a-b. 



Actsea cavipes, A. Milne Edwards, Nouv. Archiv. da Mus. I. 1865, p. 280, and 

 IX. 1873, p. 193 : Ortmann, Zool. Jahrb. Syst. VII. 1893-94, p. 456, and in Semon's 

 Zool. Forschungsr. (Jena. Denk. VIII) Crust, p. 50. 



Carapace about f- as long as broad, completely lobulated, the lobules 

 being covered with miliary granules and being separated by broad but 

 not very deep grooves : the posterior part of the carapace sometimes 

 has a worm-eaten appearance. 



Front obliquely deflexed, with a cupid's-bow-shaped edge, hardly 

 projecting beyond the prominent inner angle of the lower edge of the 

 orbit. Orbital margin uufissured and unbroken. Antero-lateral borders 

 4, or indistinctly 5, lobed, the lobes granular and uneven, but not pitted. 

 Postero-lateral borders very much shorter than the antero-lateral, 

 concave. 



Outer surface of wrist with numerous pits and craters, upper outer 

 surface of hand worm-eaten. 



The upper edges of the carpal and propodal joints of the legs have 

 each a double longitudinal crest, and in every joint the ends of the crests 

 meet so as to leave a trough-like space between them. 



The basal antennal joint almost touches the inner angle of the 

 orbit. 



Fingers long, pointed, slightly hollow at tip. 



In the Indian Museum are four specimens from the Andamans, 

 Mekran Coast, and Persian Gulf (besides specimens from Upolu and 

 Mauritius). 



