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Records of the Indian Museum. [Voi,. XXIV, 



reaching beyond the middle of the second segment. The free por- 

 tion of the stouter of the two rami composing the outer flagellum 

 is rather more than half the length of the fused portion, the latter 

 comprising 5 segments. The total length of the stouter ramus is 

 less than the length of the peduncle. The antenna! scale (text- 

 fig. 296) is about 2*5 times as long as wide. The outer margin is 



Text-fig. 30 



a. First peraeopod. 



b. Fingers of first peraeopod. 



Periclimenes noverca, sp. now 



c. Second peraeopod. 



d. Fingers of second peraeopod. 



straight and ends in a spine which does not reach as far forwards 

 as the very broadly rounded apex of the lamella. 



The first peraeopod (text-fig. 30a) is unusually stout and reaches 



a little beyond the end of the antennal scale. The carpus is 



.conspicuously shorter than the merus and is only 3 times as long 



as its distal breadth. The chela is very nearly as long as the 



carpus. The fingers (text-fig. 306) are equal in length with the 



