C A R I D E A. 



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above four serrate, below near apex one-serrate. Eyes large. An- 

 terior feet long, not shorter than inner antennse. Second feet very 

 large, the hand of same size usually as in preceding, more than half 

 longer than carapax, inflated, stouter towards base, finger hardly 

 one-fourth the hand in length, sublunate, outer margin entire, thumb 

 narrower, one-toothed within. 



Plate 37, fig. 3 a, animal, enlarged three and one-half diameters ; b, 

 profile of beak; c, under view of carpus and extremity of arm; d, 

 maxilliped of second pair; e, ibid, of third pair. 



Pacific, on the coral reef, among growing coral at Bewa, Viti Lebu, 

 one of the Feejee Islands. 



Length, eight lines. Colour, grass-green, with many dark, irregular 

 longitudinal lines along the carapax and abdominal segments. Beak 

 much more slender than in the preceding, and the margin concave 

 from the tip of the beak backward, and around below the eyes ; in pro- 

 tile the beak is linear, the upper and under margins being very nearly 

 parallel. Moveable finger of the large hand with the inner margin 

 concave and the outer much more convex, and broadest at middle ; 

 lower finger less stout, and having a single notch in the inner margin. 

 Carpus of the second feet and the preceding joint also, with one or 

 two spiniform teeth on apical margin. Outer antennas about as long- 

 as body. 



Genus HARPILIUS (Dana). 



Pontonise (Edipoque affinis. Corpus sive depressnm sive fere cylindri- 

 cum. Oculi permagni, valde salientes. MaxiUipedis externi arti- 

 culus 2dus latus, Stius 4:tusque angusti, tenues, simul sumti 2do longi- 

 ores, ultimo (4 to) multo breviore quam precedens. Rostrum longum, 

 compressum et laminatum. Antennae intei-nce flagellis duobus cwi- 

 fectce. Manus Idee longce sat tenues, cequcdes. Tarsi uncinati, breves, 

 processu inferiore carentes. 



Near Pontonia and CEdipus. Body either depressed or nearly cylin- 

 drical. Eyes large and much salient. Outer maxillipeds with 



