1898.] A. Alcock — Carcinological Fauna of India. 167 



The exposed surface of the legs is as closely as possible covered 

 with a dense spongy fur from which the tops of numerous conical or 

 subspinous granules peep out : the dorsal edge of the legs is also clothed 

 with a thick shaggy fringe of hair, as also the ventrad edge of the last 

 two joints. 



Colours in spirit yellowish brown to blackish brown ; fingers black, 

 the colouration extending along the lower border and on to both surfaces 

 of the hand. 



In the Indian Museum are 19 specimens, from the Andamans, 

 Nicobars and Ceylon (in addition to 12 specimens from the South Seas 

 and Mauritius). 



90. Chlorodopsis pilumnoides, (White). 



Chlorodius jpilumnoides, White, P. Z. S. 1847, p. 226; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 (2) II. 1848, p. 286; Adams and White, Samarang Crust, p. 41, pi. ix. fig. 3. 



? ? Pilodius pilumnoides, Dana, U. S. Expl. Exp. Crust, pt. I. p. 221, pi. xii. 

 fig. 10a-c. 



Chlorodopsis pilumnoides, de Man, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool., XXII. 1887-88, p. 34, 

 Archiv. fur Naturges. LIU. 1887, i. p. 281 : Cano, Boll. Soc. Nat. Napol. III. 1889, 

 p. 204 : Ortmann, Zool. Jahrb. VII. 1893-94, p. 470. 



Carapace, chelipeds and legs granular, beneath a copious covering 

 of short black bristles among which are scattered numerous long white 

 club- shaped hairs. 



Carapace flat, its regions, in the anterior two-thirds, plainly marked 

 and subdivided by broadish shallow furrows, but not convex ; its 

 posterior third flat, or even a little concave, between two raised trans- 

 verse beaded lines. 



Front cut rather deeply into two granular or denticulate lobes, the 

 outer angle of each of which forms a little lobule. The three fissures 

 of the granular orbital margin are distinct. 



On the antero-lateral margin are four red-tipped claw-like spines 

 not including the orbital angle, the middle two, at least, of which have 

 a pair of spinelets at base : on the carapace just inside either antero- 

 lateral margin is a scattered group of 5 or 6 similar, but rather smaller, 

 spines. 



Chelipeds subequal, rather slender, not longer than the legs (less 

 than twice the length of the carapace) ; both edges of the upper surface 

 of the arm spinulate ; numerous spines on the wrist, the one (or two) 

 at the inner angle the largest; rows of spines along upper surface, rows 

 of sharp granules along lower part of outer surface, of hand ; fingers 

 strongly fluted, the ridges being sharply and elegantly serrate or 

 spinate. 



