230 A. Alcock — Garcinological Fauna of India. [No. 1, 



The legs are stout, especially the meropodites. 



The abdomen of the male has all 7 segments distinct and separate. 



151. Domecia hispida, Eydoux and Souleyet. 



Domecia hispida, Eydoux and Souleyet, Voy. Bonite, Zool. vol. i. p. 235, pi. ii. 

 figs. 5-10 : Dana, U. S. Expl. Exp. Crust, pt. I. p. 251 : Lucas in Jacquinot's Voy. 

 Astrolabe, Zool. vol. iii. Crust, p. 50, pi. iv. fig. 3-7 : Stimpson, Bull. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool. II. 1870-71, p. 145 : A. Milne Edwards, Nouv. Archiv. du Mus. IX. 1873, 

 p. 263, and Miss. Sci. Mex. Crust, p. 345, pL lviii. fig. 2 (not good) : de Man, Archiv. 

 fur Naturges. LIII. 1887, i. p, 326 : Ortmann, Zool. Jahrb., Syst. VII. 1893-94, 

 p. 478. 



? Neleus acanthophorus, Desbonne and Schramm, Crust. Guadaloupe, p. 35. 



? Eupilumnus websteri, Kingsley, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1879, p. 397, 

 pi. xiv. fig. 3. 



Carapace covered with light-coloured hairs : antero-lateral border 

 with five or six (including the orbital angle) acute dark-tipped spines, 

 and several similar spines on the carapace just inside the antero-lateral 

 border, and also just inside the spiny fronto-orbital border. The orbital 

 margin and the prominent edge of the epistome are finely denticulate. 



Merus of the external maxillipeds extremely broad and short, with 

 an elevated patch of denticles on its outer surface. 



Chelipeds a little unequal, the larger one is not very much longer 

 than the carapace : the arm, wrist, hand and dactylus are all studded 

 with acute spines. 



Legs stout, not very much shorter than the chelipeds : the anterior 

 surface of the last four joints fringed with hairs, and the anterior edge 

 of the merus spinate, as also, but much less distinctly, is the anterior 

 edge of the carpus and propus. 



Colours in spirit, yellow with brown blotches on the carapace and 

 chelipeds and indistinct dusky cross-bands on the legs. 



In the Indian Museum are a male and female from off Little 

 Andaman I., 10 fms., and two females from Great Coco I. 



Alliance IV. Melioida. 

 Mblta, Latreille, Edw. 

 Melia, Latreille, Encycl. Meth. X. 705. 

 Melia, Milne Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust. I. 431. 



Melia, Dana, Silliman's Journal (2) XII. 1851, p. 128 r and U. S. Expl. Exp. 

 Crust, pt. I. p. 242. 



Carapace rather depressed and narrow, hexagonal, not concealing 

 the first 2| or 3 abdominal terga even in the male, the regions not, or 

 fairly distinctly, delimited. 



Fronto-orbital border more than f the greatest breadth of the 

 carapace. Orbits very shallow, affording little concealment to the eyes. 

 Antennules folding obliquely. 



