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second pair of legs are 50 mm. long, the arm measuring 



11^/2 mm., the wrist 10 mm., the palm 11 mm., and the 



closely united fingers 9 mm. 



In the eight specimens from Halmahera, collected by 



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Bernstein , the rostrum is - — - dentate , in some shorter , 



in others rather longer than the peduncle of the internal 

 antennae. In a male of a length of 87 mm., the second 

 pair of legs are unequal, being respectively 108 mm, and 

 90 mm. long , and the fingers of both legs are toothed. A 

 female, 90 mm. in length, has the second pair of legs 

 equal in size, measuring 60 mm., the fingers without 

 teeth and closely united to one another, arm 12' {^ mm., 

 wrist lO'/g mm., palm 12 ram. and fingers ll^/g mm. 



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The rostrum is — — dentate , and reaches beyond the 



peduncle of the internal antennae in the four young female 

 specimens , collected at Amboina. 



Likewise appears the rostrum in the young female , 

 caught at Anda'i, bearing 8 teeth on the upper margin 

 and 3 on the inferior. 



Two males were collected at the island of Ternate : the 

 larger specimen having a length of 95 mm , has the 

 second pair of legs rather equal in size, 120 mm. and 

 115 mm. long respectively with widely curved and typi- 

 cally toothed fingers, the arm measuring 24 mm., wrist 

 21 mm., the palm 37 mm. and the fingers nearly 24 mm. 

 In the younger specimen , on the contrary , 75 mm. long , 

 the second pair of legs are rather equal , 65 mm. long , 

 and the well-toothed fingers are rather little curved , the 

 arm measuring 14 mm., the wrist 13^/2 mm., the palm 

 18 mm. and the fingers 7'/2 mm. 



The rostrum is - dentate in the male , collected at the 



island of Flores , and reaches to the end of the peduncle 

 of the internal antennae. 



A female specimen 105 mm. in length, from the bay of 



Notes from the X^eycleii IMuseum. 



