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are prominent anteriorly, but posteriorly become obsolete. 5 L, 6 L 

 are also obsolete, and 2 L, 3 L, 4 L are united into a broad surface, the 

 anterior margin of which runs obliquely inward and a little forward 

 from the penult tooth, 4 L being partly separate. A prominent line 

 starting from the last tooth (S), extends inward anterior to 5 L. In 

 one specimen the outline of 1 P is perceptible ; it is about as long as 

 broad. The last three teeth of the lateral margin are the normal 

 teeth, N, T, S. The only other is the orbital D, E being wanting ; 

 the surface in this part is somewhat rugose. The eight posterior legs 

 are minutely rugose or granulous and hirsute; the tarsus is densely 

 hirsute on all sides. 



Colour of carapax, dark brown to brownish red, and rusty or grayish 

 yellow anteriorly. Large hand, dark reddish brown, a little red on 

 the inner side ; fingers, brownish black. 



Ozius truncatus, Edwards, Crustaces, i. 406, pi. 16, f. 11. 

 Xantho deplanatus, A. White, Jukes' s Toy., H. M. S. Fly, p. 337. 



Genus GALENE, De Eaan. 



The species of this genus below described, has a broad Eriphioid 

 form, the greatest breadth being anterior to the middle. The cha- 

 racters are those of Ozius, as regards the outer antennae, the prselabial 

 ridge, and the emargination of the praelabial margin at the exit of the 

 efferent canal. But the carapax, instead of being nearly flat above, 

 is very convex longitudinally, the anterior portion curving very much 

 downward. The third joint of the outer maxillipeds is articulated 

 with the fourth by its inner apical angle, as in other Cancroidea; 

 margin of the front very thin; epistome rather broad; inner an- 

 tennae very slender and quite transverse. Antero-lateral margin ter- 

 minates anteriorly in the outer angle of the orbit. Male verges Can- 

 croid as to their insertion, and not Grapsoid. 



The texture of the carapax is less calcareous than in other Can- 

 cridae, being like that of the Telphusidae, to which family the species 

 may be allied. 



Gahne, De Haan, Faun. Japon., p. 19; Kratjss, Siidafrik. Crust., p. 31. 



