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chela measures one-fifth of the carpus, is about 3-times as long as broad and the fingers 

 hardly shorter than the palm. 



The three posterior legs, of which the measurements are indicated in the Table, agree 

 with Baker's description. 



Eggs small, larger diameter 0,45 mm. 



The male from Stat. 7 is about 13 mm. long from tip of rostrum to tip of telson. The 

 rostrum reaches to the middle of the cornea of the eyes and the antennal spine is well-developed, 

 larger than in the female from Stat. 273. Of the 2 nd pleopod (Fig. 51/*, 51/, 5 1 w) the tvvo 

 branches are narrow, the endopodite ] / 7 shorter than the other; stylamblys with well-developed 

 cincinnuli, implanted at the proximal third of the inner branch and measuring one-fourth its length, 

 appendix masculina twice as long as the stylamblys with 4 pectinated setae at the tip. 



The egg-bearing female from Stat. 66 is only 10,5 mm. long and shows some differences 

 from the female collected at Stat. 273, but it is difficult to say whether they are of more than 

 varietal importance. The distal styliform part of the rostrum is absent, so that it does not yet 

 reach to the corneal surface of the eyepeduncles. Like in Baker's type the antero-lateral border 

 of the carapace is produced to a subacute angle just below the eyes, an antennal spine does 

 not occur. There is no small tooth on the pleura of the 5 th somite. The telson has a more 

 slender form, being 3,7-times as long as wide proximally and the width at base is not 2,7-, but 

 only 2,1-times as large as the width of the tip, the dorso-lateral spinules, finally, are implanted 

 farther forward (See the Measurements). The left simple leg of the i st pair appears slightly 

 stouter than in the female from Stat. 273, the propodus, finally, of the 5 111 pair is slightly shorter 

 than the carpus. 



The two egg-bearing females from Makassar agree with the female from Stat. 273, 

 apparently in all details, but they are only 13 mm. long and the rostrum is as short as in the 

 female from Stat. 66, not yet reaching to the cornea of the eyes. The 4 th to 6' h somite of 

 the abdomen and the telson (Fig. 5 1 e) are a' little pubescent; two fine setae instead of one 

 are inserted on the tip at each si de of the extremity, but in the specimen from Stat. 273 

 these setae, like those on the lateral margins of the telson, are vvorn off. 



The female from Stat. 89 is almost 13 mm. long and resembles that from Stat. 273, 

 but the antepenultimate joint of the external maxillipeds extends just beyond the antennal scale. 

 Ova 0,45 — 0,46 mm. long. The female from Stat. 96 is 12 mm. long and shows typical charac- 

 ters, rostrum reaching to the middle of the cornea. 



The two young specimens from Stat. 99 proved to be males, after the examination ot 

 their 2 nd pleopod; owing to their young age the stylamblys appears comparatively shorter than 

 in the male from Stat. 7. 



The ova-bearing female from Stat. 109 is but 11 mm. long, like that from Stat. 315. 

 Like in other Caridae the size of ova-bearing females of this species varies rather much, 

 namely between 1 1 and 1 7 mm. 



Proc. australiensis Baker bears a close resem blance to the european Proc. canali- 

 culata Leach, 4 adult specimens of which from the Gulf of Naples are lying before me, Baker's 

 species, however, apparently differs by its much smaller size — but there are probably 



