ntil CRUSTACEA. 



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near the eyes. Anterior feet subequal; carpus obtuse; arm acute 

 or rectangular at inner apex, and the margin denticulate, teeth 

 quadrate. Eight posterior feet all slender, coxa3 and following 

 joints very narrow, subcylindrical. 



Plate 15, fig. 1, animal, enlarged. 



From the coral reef, Carlshoff Island. 



Length, two and a half lines. Colour flesh-red, areolated with a 

 few deep-red irregularly curving lines. These lines form two deep, 

 contiguous U-shape curves over the anterior part of the carapax, ad- 

 joining the front margin, which together are somewhat like the letter 

 td, thus inverted. Anterior legs of the same colour; fingers brownish 

 black. The tarsus is about half as long as the preceding joint. 



Trapezia bella. 



Frons subinteger, obsolete sinuosus, crenaturls sex obsoletis. Pedes antici 

 subceqid, nucll, carpo obtuso ; articulo tertio a-picem internum acuto, 

 (rectangulato) , marginemqne reguletriter serrulate, denticulis triangu- 

 latis. Pedes octo postici gracdes, articidis tertio et sequentihus teniribus, 

 subcylindricis. 



Front subentire, obsoletely sinuous, six obsolete crenatures. Anterior 

 feet subequal, naked; carpus obtuse, third joint with inner apex 

 acute (rectangular), and inner margin regularly serrulate, teeth 

 triangular. Eight posterior feet slender; third and following joints 

 slender, subcylindrical. 



Plate 15, fig. 2, animal, enlarged. 



Coral reefs of Carlshoff Island, Paumotu Archipelago. 



Length, two and a half lines. Colour flesh-red, dotted minutely 

 with deeper red, both over carapax and legs ; fingers brownish. This 

 species resembles closely the speciosaj but the teeth of the arm are 

 not quadrate. The tarsus is about half the preceding joint in length. 



