174 A. Alcock — Cardiological Fauna of India. [No. 1, 



groove, its free edge irregularly denticulate. Orbital margin entire. 

 Lateral borders of the carapace somewhat granular. 



Chelipeds markedly unequal, covered with fur, but not so much as 

 to entirely conceal their sculpture. The arm has both borders fringed 

 with fur and the distal corner of the upper surface granular ; the 

 upper aud outer surfaces of the wrist are studded with sharpish 

 granules, as are the upper, outer and part of the inner surfaces of the 

 hands and the basal half of the finger — those towards the upper part 

 of the hand having a linear arrangement. The fingers of the larger 

 cheliped are stout, truncated, blunt-pointed and strongly hollowed at 

 tip ; those of the smaller cheliped, though also hollowed, are thin, 

 slender and pointed. 



The legs are covered with a thick shaggy coat of fur, which is 

 specially long and adherent along the borders. When this is removed 

 the upper edge of the meropodites is finely granular, and the upper 

 borders of the following joints are traversed by several rows of sharpish 

 granules. 



Colours in spirit, brownish yellow or fawn-colour, fingers white. 



In the Iudian Museum are 11 specimens, from Mekran coast, 

 Ceylon, An damans and Nicobars (besides 11 from other parts of the 

 Indo-Pacific). 



97. Cymo melanodactylns, De Haan. 



Cymo melanodactylus, De Haan, Faun. Japon. Crust, p. 22 : Dana, U. S. Expl. 

 Exp. Crust, pt. I. p. 225, pi. xiii. fig. 1: Stimpson, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 

 1858, p. 34: A. Milne Edwards, Nouv. Archiv. du Mus. IX. 1873, p. 252 : Ortmann, 

 Zool. Jahrb. Syst. VII. 1893-94, p. 442. 



Cymo andreossyi var. melanodactylus, Miers, Zool. H. M. S. Alert, p. 533 

 de Man, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. XXII. 1887-88, p. 35. 



Differs from C. andreossyi in the following particulars : — 



(1) the carapace is more lumpy; (2) the anterior half of the 



lateral borders shows more distinct indications of three lobules, 



some of which may even bear a spinelet ; ( 3) the fingers are black, 



except at tip. 



In the Indian Museum are 8 specimens, from the Andamans, 



Mergui and Ceylon, (besides 2 from other parts of the Indo-Pacific.) 



98. ? Cymo deplanatus, A. Milne Edwards. 

 ? Cymo deplanatus, A. Milne Edwards, Journ. Mus. Godeffr. I. 1873, p. 257. 

 This species, if I am correct in my identification, differs from 

 Cymo andreossyi only in the following particulars : — 



The carapace is less subcircular and more elongate-pentagonal; 



