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by a short branch running off from the cervical suture at right 

 angles to it; the cardiac is separated from the posterior half 

 of the branchial area ; the epigastric lobes are prominent, anteriorly 

 wrinkled and extend beyond the line of the rest of post-frontal ridge ; 

 anterior branchial lobe and post-frontal crest rugose ; the latter is 

 slightly indented by the cervical suture, and continuous from the 

 epigastric lobes to the minute epibranchial teeth ; antero-lateral 

 margins greatly inclined with minutely denticulated crests ; postero- 

 lateral margin marked with oblique wrinkles which assume a 

 tubercular character as they pass forwards on to the inflected 

 portion of the carapace and the posterior pleural lobes which, where 

 they form the peristoma, are completely covered with round, polish- 

 ed tubercles, disposed in pairs ; the anterior pleural lobe presents a 

 few scattered tubercles, and is cut off from the posterior pleural 

 and from the inflected region of the carapace by a beaded line. 

 Front broad, deflexed, coarsely granulated, marked by the pro- 

 longation forwards of the mesogastric furrow. The epistoma 

 presents the same characters as that of Telplwsa Andersoniana, 

 except that its anterior margin is distinctly crenulated. The orbits 

 and their external angles are crenated. 



Chelipedes subequal ; meropodites with their posterior faces and 

 angles very rugose ; carpopodites, above rugose, armed internally 

 with a short blunt tooth, above and below which are some smooth 

 tubercles ; propodite externally convex and rugose ; internally, 

 especially near the lower margin, above, and below tuberculated ; 

 the upper margin of the dactylopodite is rounded and presents a 

 short row of tubercles at its proximal end ; the pincers are marked 

 on every face with longitudinal rows of puncta and their arms can 

 be almost completely apposed. 



Breadth, 29 mm. of a male. 



Length, 24 mm. ,, 



Breadth, 27 mm. of a female. 



Length, » 22 mm. ,, 



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

 Collected by Dr. Anderson. — Darjiling (?). 



Plate xxvii, Fig. 6. Telphusa tumida, nat. size. 7. Front view of the 

 same. 8. External maxilliped. 9. Chela. 10. Abdomen of male. 



