1871.] J. Wood-Mason — On Indian and Malayan Telphusidcc. 451 



tubercles decreasing gradually in size and sharpness from the base 

 towards the tip. 



The ambulatory legs are hairy as in Telphusa hispida. 



Breadth, , 38J mm. 



Length, 28 mm. 



Hal. Hotha, Yunan ; Kakhyen -hills, Ponsee, Upper Burma. 

 Collected by Dr. Anderson. 



Plate xxvii, Fig. II, Telphusa Edivardsii, nat. size. 12. Front view of the 

 same. 13. External maxillipecl. 14. Chela. 15. Abdomen of male. 



Telphusa Andersoniana, n. sp., pi. xxvii, figs. 16 — 20. 

 Carapace considerably broader than long, very sparingly hirsute, 

 areolation similar to that of the preceding species ; anterior bran- 

 chial region covered with irregular tubercles which gradually pass 

 backwards into the rugations that thickly mark the postero -lateral 

 margin, the inflected portion of the carapace and a portion of the 

 posterior pleural lobe ; epigastric lobes separated from one another 

 and from the protogastrics, post-frontal crest curved forwards in 

 the middle ; epibranchial teeth well marked and pass backwards 

 on each side as regularly denticulated crests, the denticulations 

 gradually decreasing in size backwards ; anterior pleural lobes 

 covered with inosculating fovecd, separated from the peristomial 

 portions of the posterior by a tuberculated line which loses its 

 beaded character as it passes upwards to the epibranchial tooth ; 

 front broad, especially at the base, tuberculated ; its free margin 

 is sinuous, well rounded laterally and coarsely crenated ; orbital 

 borders also crenated and rising externally into a salient, forwardly- 

 directed tooth. The median triangular process of posterior border 

 of the epistoma is extremely salient, coarsely crenate, and notched 

 on each side ; externally to the notches this posterior border is 

 similarly crenate up to the point at which it begins to form the 

 anterior boundaries of the exhalant orifices of the branchial cham- 

 bers. Chelipedes subequal ; meropodites with their three angles 

 sharply tubercular, their posterior faces rugose and their ventral 

 surface bearing a sharp spinule ; carpopodites extremely rugose 

 above, with their inner margins raised into a line of sharp, irregular 

 tubercles above the level of the spine, beneath which an acute 

 smaller^one is to be seen, and with their distal articular ends greatly 



