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Egeria, Leach. 



Egeria, Leach, Zool. Miscell. Vol. II. p. 39. 

 Egeria, Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust. I. 290. 



Egeria, Miers, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool., Vol. XIV. 1879, p. 654 ; and ' Challenger ' 

 Brachyura, p. 44. 



Carapace subpyriform, nearly as broad as long, convex and tuber- 

 culated. The rostrum consists of two vertically compressed spines of 

 no great length, which are fused together in half or more of their 

 extent. The eyes are short. The commencing orbits are formed by a 

 supra-ocular eave and a post-ocular tooth, the interval between this 

 tooth and the supra-ocular eave above, and between it and the basal 

 antennal joint below, being partly closed in each case by a spine. The 

 basal antennal joint is truncate-triangular ; its antero-external angle is 

 produced, and there is a second spine behind the middle of the outer 

 border : the mobile portion of the antenna is visible from above on 

 either side of the rostrum. The merus of the external maxillipeds is 

 as broad as the ischium. Chelipeds in the adult male considerably 

 longer than the carapace and rostrum, and having the palms inflated. 

 Chelipeds in the female very slender throughout, and a little longer 

 than the carapace and rostrum. Ambulatory legs extremely long and 

 slender, the first pair being about six times the length of the carapace 

 and rostrum : the dactylus in all is remarkably long. Abdomen of 

 male seven- jointed : of female five- jointed. 



Egeria araclinoides (Rumph), Edw. 



Egeria arachnoides, Humph, pi. viii. fig. 4 ; [and Latreille, Encyc. PI. 281, fig. 1 ;] 

 and Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust., I. 291 ; and Neumann, Syst. Uebers., 1878, 

 p. 19 ; and Haswell, P. L. S., N. S Wales, IV. 1879, p. 439, and Cat. Austr. Crust., 

 p. 11; and Miers Zool. Alert, pp. 182 and 191, and 'Challenger' Brachyura, p. 44; 

 and C. W. S. Aurivillius, Kongl. Sv. Vet. Ak. Handl., XXIII. 1888-89, No. 4, p. 44; 

 and Ortmann, Zool. Jahrb. Syst. etc., VII. 1893, p 48 ; and J. R. Henderson, Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. Zool. (2) V. 1893, p. 343. 



Cancer longipes, Herbst, Krabben, I. ii. 231, pi. xvi. fig. 93; and Fabricius 

 Syst. Ent. ii. 466. 



Inachus longipes, Fabr. Suppl., p. 358. 



Macropus longipes, Latr. Hist. Nat. Crust. VI. 111. 

 Leptopus longipes, Lamk. Hist. An. Sansvert. V. 235 ; and Desmarest Consid. Crust. 

 p. 159; [and Guerin, Icon. Reg. An. Crust., pi. x. fig. 3]; and Cuvier, Regne An. 

 Crust., pi. xxxiv. fig. 1 ; and Adams and White, ' Samarang ' Crust , p. 7; and Stimp- 

 son, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci., Philad., 1857, p. 216 ; and A. 0. Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 Zool., XX. p. 109 ; and M. J. Rathbun, P. U. S. N. M., XVI. 1893, p. 95. 



Egeria indica, Leach, Zool. Miscel. II. pi. lxxiii ; and Desmarest, Consid. Crust., 

 p. 157, pi. xxri. fig. 2 ; and Milne-Edwards, Hist Nat. Crust. I. 292 ; and Adams and 

 White, 'Samarang' Crust,, p. 6; and E. Nauck, Zeits. Wiss. Zool. XXXIV. 1880, 

 p. 41 (gastric teeth). 



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