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MR. H. N. RIDLEY ON THE 



Mttiir.vx (Teleophrys) cristulipes {Stimpson). 

 1862. Teleophrys Qv'\%t\x\\^Q^, Stimpson, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. vii. p. 190 

 pi. ii. fig. 2. 



1881. Teleophrys cristulipes, A. M.-Edwards, Miss. Sci. Mex. {Crus- 

 tacea), p. 113, pi. xix. fig. 2. 



E.egions of the carapace defined by shallow sulci. Superior 

 surface of body and limbs tubercular, inferior surface smooth. 



Carapace broader than long, beset with low, inconspicuous, 

 scattered tubercles which vary in distinctness. The principal 

 tubercles arranged as follows : — two or three on each half of the 

 rostrum between the superior orbital prominences, one on each 

 side of the middle line at the base of the rostrum, two in longi- 

 tudinal series on each side of the gastric region, several on the 

 branchial regions, and three on the anterior lateral margin of 

 each. Orbit furnished in front with a superior and an inferior 

 blunt prominence. Not furnished with spines or prominences 

 behind. 



Eostrum short, broad, with upturned anterior margin, not deeply 

 bifid, marked above with central sulcus, and separated on each 

 side from the superior orbital prominence by a conspicuous de- 

 pression. Its anterior margin projecting slightly beyond the 

 middle of the basal segment of the antennae and slightly in front 

 of the inferior orbital prominence. 



Chelipedes large ; merus tubercular above and furnished below 

 in front with three large, rounded, compressed teeth ; carpus 

 furnished above with four or five tubercles, and with one blunt 

 tooth in front. Hand smooth ; its distal portion compressed 

 above and below into a crest. Dactylus and pollex meeting only 

 at the apices. Dactylus furnished with a single tooth. 



In the first pair of legs the merus is furnished above with two 

 longitudinal rows of prominences, the posterior row consisting of 

 lov\er rounded tubercles, which distally decrease in size, the an- 

 terior row of five higher, compressed, sharper teeth, which distally 

 increase in size ; distal margin of the segment produced into five 

 rounded prominences, varying in size ; the carpus, in addition to 

 three or four low tubercles on its centre, with its distal margin 

 furnished with a larger anterior and a smaller posterior tubercle, 

 and its antero-superior surface with a larger proximal and a 

 smaller distal tooth ; propodos furnished above with two tubercles, 

 one near the centre, the other at its distal margin ; claw long, 

 curved, hairy below, with its distal portion serrate below. 



