1898.] A. Alcock — Carcinological Fauna of India. 213 



The chelipeds in the female are equal ; the fingers are compressed 

 and pointed, not hollowed. 



The legs are long and slender, the propodite and dactylus of the 

 last pair strongly compressed aud a little broadened. 



This form is most nearly related to Eurycarcinus. 



137. Nectopanope rhodobaphes, Wood-Mason. 



Nectopanope rhodobaphes, Wood-Mason, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. March, 1891, 

 p. 261. 



Carapace about f as long as broad. Front extremely obscurely 

 grooved in the middle line. Antero-lateral border cut into three thin 

 sharp-edged teeth, of which the first is broad and rounded and con- 

 fluent with the orbit, the second is broad and anteriorly acuminate, and 

 the third almost spiniform. 



Chelipeds smooth, in the female they are equal and are a little over 

 If times the length of the carapace : arm with an acute spine near the 

 far end of the upper border ; inner angle of wrist acute, spiniform ; 

 fingers thin, compressed, pointed and hooked at tip, armed with thin 

 laciniate teeth, the thumb very broad. 



Legs thin, the first three pairs not much shorter than the chelipeds, 

 with long compressed-styliform dactylus : the last pair a good deal 

 shorter, with thin blade-like propodite and dactylns closely fringed 

 with hair. 



Colours in spirit uniform yellowish white : in life pink, with a 

 dotted, V-shaped, white mark between the gastric and branchial regions. 



In the Indian Museum is a single female specimen from off the 

 Godavari coast 98-102 fms. 



Nectopanope longipes, which was referred provisionally to this genus 

 by Wood-Mason, who had insufficient material for examination, turns 

 out, now that numerous good specimens have been dredged by the 

 *' Investigator," to be a Catometope. 



Subfamily VII. Eriphiinj;. 



Alliance I. Eriphioida. 



Eriphia, Latr. 



Eriphia, Latreille, Cuvier Regno An. (1) III. 18. 

 Eriphia, Desmarest, Consid. Gen. Crnst. p. 125. 

 Eriphia, De Haan, Faun. Japon. Crust, p. 22. 

 Eriphia, Milne Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crnst. I. 425. 



Eriphia, Dana, Silliman's Journ. (2) XII. 1851, p. 128; and U. S. Expl. Exp. 

 Crnst. pt. I. p. 246. 



Eriphia, Heller, Crust. Sudl. Euiop. p. 74. 



