JAPANESE HERMIT-CRABS. 



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dilated, taking up about a fourth part of the terminal joint of eye- 

 stalk ; ophthalmic scales small, lanceolate, deeply concave, distant. 



Antenna! acicle 

 curved, slightly setose, 

 nearly as long as the 

 last joint of antennal 

 peduncle and reaching 

 beyond the level of 

 the distal end of eye- 

 stalk ; antennal flagel- 

 lum about two and a 

 half times as long as 

 carapace, almost nude 

 or with but sparsely 

 set minute setae. 



Right cheliped much 

 larger than the left, 

 about 2% times the 

 length of carapace ; 

 the merus triangular, 

 spinulose in the distal 

 part of the upper 

 border, spinose along 

 the upper part of distal margin, the inner surface hollowed out for 

 accommodation of the lobe of the carpus in flexion, the lower ridge 

 spinulose ; carpus very much broadened, raised into thin leaf-like 

 ridge along both borders, spinose along the proximal half of the upper 

 border as well as along the median line on the outer surface, finely 

 spinulose on the outer anterior margin, deeply concave on the inner 

 surface, the concave area kidney-shaped, the lower proximal ridge 

 most prominent ; hand about twice as long as broad, inconspicuously 

 granulous on the upper border of palm. 



Textfig. 2. 



Eitpagurus gotoi, n. sp. Nat. size, a. Anterior half of 

 carapace ; b, outer view, c, inner view, of right cheliped ; 

 d. 2nd left leg ; e, 3rd left leg ; /, outer view of right cheliped. 



