PYCNI »( ■' 'NINA 



2. Subfam. Palleninl. 

 Palpi deficientes vel imminuti. 



Tlu- palps wanting or rudimentary. 



i. Gen. Pallene (Johnst.). 



Pallene Wilson; Syn. Pycnog. New-Engl., 1878. 

 Sars, Pycnogonidea, [891. 



1. Pallene acus 11. sp. 



PI. IV. Fig. 8 13. 

 pus subgracile. 



lum bre\ 



Rostrum crassum. 



Tuber oculare altum, acutissimum, erectum, paulum curvatum, absque ocellis. 



Segmentum caudale magnum, in obliquum erectum. 



Pedes oviferi longi; pars terminalis pedum laminis latis, ovalibus 10- 12 instructa. 



Pedi rii longi, articulo altero tarsali in inar«inc interiore acie angusta, longa instructo. Unguis 



permagnus, validus, quartas partes articuli alterius tarsalis fere explens, uuguiculis auxiliaribus 



ilibus, tertiam partem longitudinis unguis fere referentibus. 



g. tota 3""". Rostri 0,65""". Corporis 2,2""". Segmenti caudalis 0,5""". 



The trunk rather slender. 



The neck short 



Tlie proboscis thick. 



The oculiferous tubercle high, very pointed, erect, a little curved, without ocelli. 



The caudal segment large, obliquely erect. 



Tli' long; the terminal part with 10 to 12 broad, oval leaves. 



ambulal ong, the innei edge of the second tarsal joint with a long, narrow cutting-blade. 



The claw very large, powerful, about four fifths of the length of the second tarsal joint, with 

 nder auxiliary claw- it one third of the length of the claw. 



d lengtl Hie proboscis o,65 mn \ The trunk 2,2 n " n . Tin caudal segment o,$ m . 



cutting • blade (acies) that in this species and the following one is mentioned as 



m the in; .in of the .second tarsal joint, corresponds to a similar formation on 



■ in Phoxichilidium pctiolatum^ which is drawn bj Hansen, Zoolog. Dan., [885, 



I. VII, and in the explanation of the figures, p. IX, called a cutting edge on the lowei 



in the text, p. [30, it is called .1 cutting ridge formed like the Made of a knife . 



