TELPHUSA. 933 



ventral surface bearing a sharp spinule ; carpopoclites 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 theh distal 

 articular ends greatly tliickened and rounded, as in Telplmsa edwardsi, to which this 

 species is closely allied ; propodites with their upper edge armed with a row of five 

 forwardly-directed spiniform tubercles, externally to which are some small rounded 

 tubercles ; the rest of the surface, both externally and internally, is excavated into 

 shallow, inosculating /o»e«. Above, the dactylopodites are rounded and armed at 

 the proximal end with a small spiniform tubercle, are externally longitudinally 

 canaliculate, and can be brought into complete contact with the immovable arm of 

 the pincers, which is also grooved. 



The penultimate joints of the ambulatory legs are longer in proportion to their 

 breadth than those of T. edtoardsi. 



Breadth .......... 43 mm. 



Length 34 „ 



Sab. — Ponsee, Kakhyen Hills ; Momien, Yunnan, at elevations of from 3,500 to 

 5,000 feet. 



Telphusa hispida, J. W. -Mason. 



Telplmsa hispida, J. Wood-Mason, Journ. As. Sec, Bengal, vol. xl, pt. ii, 1871, p. 452, pi. xxviii. 



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 edwardsi, but the postero- 

 lateral boundary of the oval areolet is not so deep impressed ; the epi- gastric lobes, 

 as in Telphusa andersoniana, are not distinct from the proto-gastrics behind ; the 

 cervical suture forms a very indistinct divisional line between the hepatic portion of 

 the proto-gastric and the anterior moiety of the branchial lobe, which is obsoletely 

 tubercular ; the epibranchial teeth are by no means saHent ; 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 

 epibranchial teeth, nor interrupted by the projection beyond it of the epi-gastric 

 lobes. The orbital rims and extraorbital teeth crenulated. Pront sinuous, short, 

 not greatly deflexed, truncate on each side, irregularly punctate, minute hairs 

 springing in bundles of 2 or 3 from the puncta. The structure of the epistoma is 

 very much the same as in T. edwardsi, but its surface is advanced so as to be more 

 nearly in the same plane with the free margin of the front, and the triangular 



