ANOMOURA PORCELLANIDEA. 415 



Length of carapax, six lines; breadth, six and one-third lines; 

 breadth and length of carpus, three and one-fourth to three and a half 

 lines. Colour, a fawn tint ; also, other specimens from San Lorenzo, 

 spotted with brownish black of different shades and a light red tint, 

 carpus brownish, apex of fingers approaching vermilion. Carpus 

 widest towards base, and having two teeth on its inner margin. Upper 

 surface of both carpus and hand unevenly coarse granulous or mi- 

 nute tuberculous. Under surface of hand fine and even granulous. 

 Third, fourth, and fifth joints of the following pairs of legs hairy 

 - above, and the fifth somewhat so below. Front of the carapax very 

 short triangular, the sides being concave, and the surface above pube- 

 scent. 



Guerin, Mag. de Zool. for 1838, fig. 3, pi. 26. 



P. natalensis (?) of Krauss, op. cit., p. 58, pi. 4, f. 1. 



3. Frons superne visus prominenter triangulatus, non dentatus. 

 a. Carapax Icevis, nudus. 

 PORCELLANA VALIDA. 



Violacese et granulosa affinis. Carapax fere Imvis, utrinque obsolete 

 marginatus, fronte planus, quoad onarginem orbitd paulo excavatus. 

 Antenna? externa?, flagello parce pubescentes, pilis latitudine flagelli 

 longioribus. Articulus pedum k-torum Stius latus, btus paulo hir- 

 sutus, 4ta prope apicem parce hirsutus. Carpus vnanusque subtiUter 

 granulati ; manus superfiele partim villosa. 



Near the violacea and granulosa. Carapax nearly smooth, with a mi- 

 nute margin either side, front plain, the front margin excavated by 

 the orbit. Outer antennse having the flagellum sparingly pubescent, 

 the hairs longer than the breadth of the flagellum. Third joint of 

 the fourth pair of legs broad, fifth a little hirsute, fourth somewhat 

 hirsute about apex. Carpus and hand minute granulous; hand above 

 partly villous. 



Plate 26, fig. 5 a, animal, natural size; b, part of flagellum of outer 

 antennae, from near its middle. 



