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thickened and rounded as in Telphusa Edwardsii to which this 

 species is closely allied ; propodites with their upper edge armed 

 with a row of five forwardly-directed spiniform tubercles, ex- 

 ternally to which are some small rounded tubercles ; the rest of 

 the surface, both externally and internally, is excavated into shallow, 

 inosculating fovece. Above, the dactylopodites are rounded and arm- 

 ed at the proximal end with a small spiniform tubercle, are externally 

 longitudinally canaliculate and can be brought into complete contact 

 with the immoveable arm of the pincers, which is also grooved. 



The penultimate joints of the ambulatory legs are longer in pro- 

 portion to their breadth than those of T. Edwardsii. 



Breadth, 43 mm. 



Length, 34 mm. 



Hob. Momien, W. Yunan, at elevations of from 3500 — 5000 ft. ; 

 Kakhyen-hills, Ponsee, Upper Burma. Collected by Dr. Anderson. 



Plate xxvii, Fig. 16. Telphusa Andersoniana, nat. size. 17. Front view of 

 the same. 18. External maxilliped. 19. Chela. 20. Abdomen of male. 



Telphusa hispida, n. sp., pi. xxviii, figs. 1 — 5. 

 Carapace much broader than long, flattened above, hirsute, 

 especially on the postero-lateral margins and the posterior pleural 

 lobes ; the surface is subpunctate and has an areolation very similar 

 to that of Telphusa JEdivardsii, but the postero-lateral boundary of 

 the oval areolet is not so deep impressed ; the epigastric lobes, 

 as in Telphusa Andersoniana, are not distinct from the proto- 

 gastrics behind ; the cervical suture forms a very indistinct divi- 

 sional line between the hepatic portion of the protogastric and 

 the anterior moiety of the branchial lobe, which is obsoletely tuber- 

 cular ; the epibranchial teeth are by no means salient ; the more 

 obscurely denticulated crest of the antero-lateral margin is very 

 little elevated, and the smooth furrow along the inner side of it, 

 which is so noticeable in the former species, is absent ; a bundle 

 of short hairs springs from between each denticulation. The 

 anterior is separated from the posterior cardiac lobe by a broad, 

 shallow, transverse channel which extends right across the carapace, 

 and these again are similarly marked off from the posterior 

 halves of the branchial lobes. The post-frontal ridge is well 

 marked, bent forwards in the middle, but is neither continuous to the 



