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



b. Antero-lateral margin divided into 



four blunt spinuliferous lobes C . nigrocrinita. 



2. Posterior fourth of carapace flat ; the 

 antero-lateral margin consists of four lobea 

 each capped by several spinules : chelipeds 

 markedly unequal, the black colouration of 

 the thumb involves the greater part of the 



lower surface of the hand C. melanochira. 



ii. Carapace with a few scattered hairs which do not 

 in the least conceal its sculpture. The groove 

 that cuts off the fronto- orbital margin from the 

 rest of the carapace is very distinct : — 



1. All four spines of the antero-lateral margin 

 equal, the 2nd and 3rd commonly with an 



accessory spinule near the tip 0. wood-masoni. 



2. First spine of the antero-lateral margin 

 small or obsolescent ; last three spines large, 



claw-like C. spinipes. 



89. Ghlorodopsis areolata, (Edw.) A. M. Edw. 



Chlorodius areolatus, Milne Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust. I. 400: Hess, Archiv. 

 fur Naturges. XXXI. 1865, pp. 135, 171. 



Chlorodius perlatus, Macleay, 111. Zool. S. Afr., Annulosa, p. 59 : Krauss, Sudafr 

 Crust, p. 31. 



Chlorodopsis areolata, A. Milne Edwards, Nouv. Archiv. du Mus. IX. 1873, 

 p. 231, pi. viii. fig. 8 : Hilgendorf, MB. Ak. Berl. 1878, p. 790 : Eichters in Mobius. 

 Meeresf. Maurit. p. 148: Haswell, Cat. Austral. Crust, p. 54: Miers, Zool. H. M. S. 

 Alert, pp. 517, 532: F. Muller. Verh. Ges. Basel, VIII. 1886, p. 474: de Man, Notes 

 Leyden Mus. XII. 1890, p. 54 : Ortmann, Zool. Jahrb. VII. 1893-94, p. 470. 



Carapace flat, but thick, as completely lobulated as any Actsea ; the 

 lobules strongly convex, isolated by broad deep smooth channels, their 

 convexities as closely as possible covered with pearly granules, the 

 dividing channels lined by an extremely short dense dark fur, which 

 also extends between but does not cover the granules of the lobules. 



The front is deeply and broadly cut into two granular lobes, the 

 outer angle of each of which forms a separate lobule. The three 

 fissures of the orbital margin are so deep as to give a lobed appearance. 



The antero-lateral border is divided by broad notches into four 

 rounded granular lobes. 



Chelipeds unequal, the longer one about twice the length of the 

 carapace ; the upper part of the outer surface of the arm, the nodular 

 or wrinkled surface of the wrist, and the upper and outer surface of 

 the hand are all closely covered with pearly granules, which are largest 

 on the hand : fingers strongly arched, smooth except for some grooving 

 and granulation at base of dactylus. 



