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84 millim. long (exclusive of the basal portion of the abdomen). 
The pterygostomian regions are sulcate in this species. 
Actea areolata has previously been recorded from the Sooloo 
Sea or Balabac Straits. 
15. AcT#A RUFOPUNCTATA, M-Edw. 
Xantho rufopunctatus, Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. des Crustacés, t. 1. 
p. 389. 
Acta rufopunctata, Alph. Milne-Edwards, Nouv. Arch. du Muséum 
Hist. Nat. t. 1. p. 268, pl. xvi. fig. 1. 
Actea pilosa, Stempson, 1. c. p. 31, and A. Milne-Edwards, 1. c. 
p- 265. 
Six fine specimens (three ¢, three 9) are in the Collection, 
four of which were collected at King Island Bay, while the two 
other male specimens were found at Elphinstone Island. 
The cephalothorax of an ova-bearing female is 28 millim. 
broad and 203 millim. long. These numbers in an adult male 
are respectively 32 millim. and 23 millim. 
I refer these specimens to the common Indian Acteéa rufo- 
punctata, as they nearly completely present the striking charac- 
ters of that species. In all these specimens, however, the whole 
upper surface of the cephalothorax and the outer surface of the 
legs, besides being clothed with a short close down, similar 
to that of A. tomentosa, are moreover covered with longer 
yellowish-brown hairs, which were not described by the French 
carcinologist; and, secondly, the cardiac region of the upper 
surface of the cephalothorax never shows even a trace of a 
median groove, which is visible in Milne-Edwards’s figure. 
The specimens are of a yellowish colour, and marked with red 
spots on the carapace and on the legs. The individuals which I 
described some time ago under the name of A. rufopunctata 
(Notes from the Leyden Museum, vol. 1. p. 172, and vol. iii. 
p- 96) seem to belong to the same species, but the median frontal 
lobes are less prominent in the Red-Sea specimens, a difference 
which may probably be ascribed to their being younger. Never- 
theless, the small size of these specimens, already bearing eggs, 
is very remarkable. 
Actga pilosa, Stimpson, from Hongkong is, in my opinion, 
identical with A. rufopunctata. As regards Actea Kraussi, 
Heller, from the Red Sea and from the Island of Bourbon, I may 
observe that it differs from these specimens by its compara- 
tively more enlarged cephalothorax, by the subhepatic regions 
