1898.] A. Alcock — Carcinological Fauna of India. 179 



each of which is a prominent rounded tooth separated from the supra 

 orbital margin by a groove. 



The antero-lateral border is fairly sharp and is divided into four 

 broad lobes, of which the last two are distinctly, the first two indis- 

 tinctly, acuminate. 



Chelipeds massive, a little unequal, smooth with some fine and 

 distant pitting : inner angle of wrist bluntly prominent; fingers stout, 

 rather short. 



Legs stout, smooth, except the upper border which is sometimes 

 microscopically granular : upper border of carpopodites sparsely, both 

 borders of propodites and dactyli more thickly, hairy. 



Colours in spirit reddish or brownish yellow with sometimes a fine 

 network of darker markings ; fingers black. 



In the Indian Museum are 100 specimens, from Penang, Tavoy, 

 Mergui, Madras coast, Ceylon, Laccadives, Karachi and Persian Gulf. 



Subgenus Myomenippe, Hilgendorf. 



Myomenippe, Hilgendrof, MB. Ak. Berl. 1878, p. 795. 



Closely resembles Menippe in all respects, but differs (1) in the 

 orbit being a completely closed cavity, owing to the contact of its upper 

 and lower inner angles ; hence the long antennary flagellum is quite 

 excluded from the orbit, and (2) in the front being rather broader 

 (nearly a fourth the greatest breadth of the carapace) and six-lobulate. 



102. Menippe (Myomenippe) granulosa, A. M. Edw. 



Menippe granulosa, A. Milne Edwards, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (4) VII. 1867, 

 p. 275. 



Myomenippe duplicidens, Hilgendorf MB. Ak. Berl. 1878, p. 796, (fide de 

 Man.) 



Myomenippe granulosa, de Man, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool., XXII. 1887-88, p. 40, 

 pi. ii. fig. 1 ; and Zool. Jahrb., Syst., VIII. 1894-95, p. 525. 



The gastric region is fairly well demarcated and subdivided into 

 three areas, the two antero-lateral of which have the surface broken 

 up into low granular convexities : the lateral regions of the carapace are 

 also rugose, the wrinkles being granular and falling into two broken series 

 almost parallel with the curve of the antero-lateral borders. Every 

 margin of the carapace is granular, as is also — besides the rugosities 

 already mentioned — but more finely, a good deal of the surface near 

 the margins. 



The antero-lateral border is thin and rather sharp and is cut into 

 four teeth, the first three of which are broad and anteriorly acumiuate, 

 the last narrow and cai mated. 



