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trigonous, palms somewhat inflated and rounded above, and rounded or subcarinated 
below, fingers distally acute and denticulated on the inner margins. The ambulatory 
legs are rather slender and of moderate length ; dactyli styliform or lanceolate. 
The following species are to be referred to this genus : — 
Litocheira bispinosa, Kinahan. Port Philip (15 fathoms); Bass Strait; Port 
Curtis ; King George’s Sound (Coll. Brit. Mus.). 
Litocheira (?) hevis ( = Brachygrapsus lasvis, Kingsley). New Zealand. 
Litocheira kingsleyi, n. sp. Agulhas Bank, 150 fathoms (Station 142). 
Litocheira kingsleyi, Miers (PI. XXI. fig. 1). 
Brachygrapsus 'kingsleyi, Miers, Narr. Chall. Exp., vol. i. pt. ii. p. 587, 1880. 
The body and limbs are rather thinly pubescent. Carapace quadrate, very slightly 
broader than long, with the sides nearly straight, longitudinally it is slightly convex and 
arcuate, it has a prominent spiniform tooth at the outer angle of the orbit, and a second 
at a short distance behind it on the lateral margin. The front is nearly half the width 
of the carapace, curves slightly downwards, and is divided by a median notch into two 
rounded lobes, external to which, at the inner angle of the orbit, is an inconspicuous 
tooth. The margins of the rather large orbits are granulated, without fissures. The 
epistoma is transversely linear. The post-abdomen of the male is rather narrow, with 
the sides slightly convergent, as in N autilograpsus, the segments are thinly pubescent, 
the third to the sixth segments coalescent, the terminal segment small and subtriangulate ; 
the ocular peduncles are moderately robust and hairy, with the comese terminal. The 
antennules are transversely plicated. The basal antennal joint is short, and does not 
quite reach the infero-lateral process of the front, the next joint more slender and slightly 
longer, the terminal peduncular joint short, the flagellum about fourteen-jointed. The 
exterior maxillipedes are formed nearly as in Trapezia ; ischium longer than broad, with 
an obscure obliquely longitudinal sulcus on the outer surface ; merus small, distally 
truncated, with the antero-external angle rounded and very slightly prominent, and 
bearing the next joint at the antero -internal angle; exognath very slender, narrow, and 
distally acute. Chelipedes in the male moderately developed ; merus very finely 
denticulated on its anterior margin; carpus with a small tooth on its inner margin, 
anterior to which the margin is granulated ; palm slightly inflated, and obscurely 
granulated on its outer surface and more distinctly on its upper margin; fingers about as 
long as the palm, denticulated on the inner margins, slightly incurved, and distally 
acute ; ambulatory legs rather elongated, with the merus- joints dilated and compressed, 
and armed with a spiniform tooth near to the distal extremity of the upper margin; the 
following joints slender and very hairy; dactyli armed below with a series of short 
spines, and with a small terminal claw. Colour (in spirit) reddish-brown. 
