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Micippe miliar is, Gerstacker, Archiv. fur Naturges., XXII. 1856, p. 110; and 
Heller, Crust. Roth. Meer., SB. Ak., Wien, XLIII. 1861, p. 298, pi. i. fig. 1; and 
Kossmann, Reise Roth. Meer., Crust., pp. 4 and 8; and Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 
1885, Yol. XV., p. 11. 
Micippa haanii , Stimpson, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci., Philad., 1857, p. 217 ; and Miers, 
Zool. H. M. S. ‘ Alert,’ pp. 517 and 524 j and C. W. S. Aurivillius, Kongl. Sv. Yet. 
Ak. Handl., XXIII. 1888-89, No. 4, p. 52, pi. iv. figs. 1, la; and de Man, J. L. S., 
Zool., Yol. XXII. 1888, p. 20. 
Micippe pusilla, Bianconi, Mem. Ac. Sci., Bologna, 1869, Yol. IX. p. 205, pi. i. 
fig. 1: and Hilgendorf, MB. Ak., Berl., 1878, p. 787. 
Micippa inermis, Haswell, P. L. S., N. S. Wales, Yol. IY. 1879, p. 445, pi. xxyi. 
fig. 3, and Cat. Austral. Crust., p. 24. 
Body and ambulatory legs covered with a woolly tomentum. 
Carapace with the regions fairly well-defined, the hepatic regions 
depressed, and the surface closely and evenly granular. From the 
granular surface there usually, but not always, arise several large verti¬ 
cal spines, which are typically disposed as follows:—one on either 
supra-ocular hood, two on the gastric region in the middle line, and two 
placed obliquely on either branchial region. Any or all of these spines 
may be suppressed. The lateral margins are armed with an irregular 
series of spines or spinules, and a few spinules may exist on the pos¬ 
terior border in the middle line. 
The rostrum is deflexed nearly vertically in the adult female, less 
vertically in the adult male, and at an angle of 45° or less in the young 
male: it ends in two curved divergent spines. 
The basal antennal joint is produced at its antero-external angle to 
assist in the formation of the floor of the orbit, but there is a wide 
hiatus between this process and the post-ocular spine, so that the floor 
of the orbit is incomplete. 
The chelipeds in the adult male are as long as the carapace, are 
not much stouter than the other legs, and have slender palms, and long 
slender fingers which, though nearly straight, are closely apposable only 
in their distal half. In the adult female the chelipeds are equal in 
length to the post-orbital portion of the carapace, are slenderer than 
the other legs, and have tapering palms and minute fingers. The merus 
and carpus of the ambulatory legs are sometimes swollen. 
In the Museum collection are specimens, representing all the 
varieties of this species, from Mergui, Burma, Orissa and Malabar, as 
well as from Hongkong and Nagasaki. 
This species shows quite as well as M. cristata the close relation 
of Micippa to Maia. 
