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porting dorsally a strong, curved hook-like spine; there are no 

 accessory spines present on either propodus or dactyl, but there 

 are a series of cuff-like bristles on the distal end of the propodus. 



Referencess Oedipus gramineus, Dana, J. D., U. S. Explor. Ex- 

 ped. Crust., vol. XIII, pt. 1, 1852, p. 574 ; Atlas, 1855, pi. 37, 

 fig. 3. 



Coralliocaris graminea, Stimpson, W., Proc. Phila. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci., vol. XII, 1860, p. 38.— MiERS, E. J., "Alert" Crust., 1884, 

 p. 563.— DE Man, J. G., Arch, f . Naturg., Bd. LIII, heft 1, 1887, 

 p. 536 ; Abh. Senckenb. Gesellsch. Frankfurt, Bd. XXV, heft 

 III, 1902, p. 840. — Ortmann, A., in Semon's Forschungsr. 

 in Australien und Malayischen Arch., Bd. V, I, 1894, p. 

 16. — Borradaile, L. a., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 

 II, 1898, p. 385.— Lenz, H., Abh. Senckenb. Gesellsch., Bd. 

 XXVI, heft IV, 1905, p. 381.— Borradaile, L. A., Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. London Zool., ser. 2, vol. XVII, 1917, p. 383.— 

 Kemp, S., Rec. Indian Mus., vol. XXIV, pt. 2, 1922, p. 269.— 

 Edmondson, C. H., Bull. B. P. Bishop Mus., vol. V, 1923, 

 p. 34; vol. XXVII, 1925, p. 7.— Balss, H., Zool. Ergebn. 

 Denksch. k. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Bd. XCI, 1915, p. 26. 



Coralliocaris inaequalis, Ortmann, A., Spengler, Zool. Jahrb. 

 Syst., Bd. V, 1890, p. 510, pi. 26, fig. 21.— Borradaile, L. A., 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. II, 1898, p. 386; in Dr. 

 Willey's Zool. Results to New Britain, New Guinea, Loyalty 

 Isles and Elsewhere, vol. IV, 1900, p. 408. — Balss, H., Abh. 

 k. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. Math.-Phys. Kl. II, Suppl. Bd. X, 1914, 

 p. 33. 



Coralliocaris tahitoei, new species 

 Plate 49 



Type : One specimen, taken at Venus Point Reef, Tahiti, So- 

 ciety Islands, August 15, 1931, by the "Alva," and deposited in 

 the Vanderbilt Marine Museum. 



Colour: Unrecorded. 



Technical description: The type is about 12 mm. long, 

 with the telson somewhat broken. The carapace is broad, 3 mm. 

 median width, 5 mm. long from tip of rostrum to posterior mar- 

 gin, flattish on the median area, rounded towards the sides ; the 



