M A I I D E A. 



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The distance between the angle on under side of penult joint of 

 legs and base of same joint, is about half the distance from the same 

 angle to the apex; while in the Petiverii, this angle is nearer the apex 

 than the base. 



ACANTHONYX DEBILIS. 



Maris : — Petiverii affinis. Carapax paulo convexus, marginibus latera- 

 libus paralklis, regioue mediand obsolete bi-tuberculatd, tuber 'cults 

 setigeris. Pedes antici maris reliquis vix crassiores, digitis parce 

 hiantibus, carpo non cristato. Tarsus pedis postici 12-14 sjjintdis 

 seriatim armatus ; articidus penidtimus late triangulatus, infra obliquh 

 truncatus. 



Near Petiverii. Carapax a little convex; lateral margins parallel; 

 stomach region with two setigerous points. Anterior feet but little 

 stouter than the following; fingers slightly gaping, and meeting only 

 at the extremity ; teeth triangular ; carpus not cristate. Tarsus of 

 posterior feet, with twelve to fourteen spinules in a row ; penult 

 joint broad triangular ; truncate margin oblique. 



Plate 5, fig. 5 a, hand of male, enlarged five diameters; b, extre- 

 mity of posterior legs. 



Valparaiso, Chili. 



Length of carapax of male, nine lines; breadth, five and two-thirds 

 lines; distance between first and second lateral teeth, two and one- 

 eighth lines ; distance between second and third lateral teeth, one and 

 one-eighth lines. 



Differs from the Petiverii in the small hands of the males, the teeth 

 of the fingers, the cristate carpus, and the two obsolete tubercles on 

 the stomach region; from the lumdatus, in the small hands in the 

 males ; from the simplex, in the stomach tubercles, the spinules of the 

 tarsi. The abdomen has only six joints, and not seven, as in the Mac 

 Leayi of Krauss ; it has the same shape as in the Petiverii (Plate 5, 

 %. 6). 



