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direction. The black colour of the fingers extends a little 

 on the base of the immobile finger in the male, but not 

 in the female. 



The upper surface of the cephalothorax is beautifully 

 marbled with red on a paler ground-colour and the under 

 surface presents numerous small round , reddish spots. 



Dimensions of the female: 

 Breadth of the cephalothorax ...... 27 mm. 



Length „ „ „ 16 



Distance between the external orbital angles 18^/4 „ 



This species has also been recorded from New Caledonia. 



7. Leptodius gracilis Dana. 



Chlorodius gracilis, Dana, 1. c. p. 210, PI. XI, Sg. 13. 

 Leptodius gracilis, de Man, in: Archiv f. Naturgeschichte, Jahrg. 

 53, 1888, S. 287, PI. XI, fig. 2. 



Two young male specimens from Ponape. 



Quite as was the case with the male from the Java Sea, 

 described by me (1. c), also in these two individuals the 

 cephalothorax is slightly more enlarged than in the 

 typical specimens of Leptodius exaratus ^ in which the fin- 

 gers of the hands have no hiatus between them , when 

 closed. I therefore think Leptodius gracilis to be a» good" 

 species. The upper surface of the cephalothorax is shining , 

 what is denied by Dana. 



The dimensions of the larger specimen are as follows: 

 Width of the cephalothorax 18 mm. 

 Length „ „ „ 11 „ 



8. Chlorodopsis areolata H. Milne Edw. 



Chlurodopsis areolatus, A. Milne Edwards, Nouvelles Archives du 

 Muséum, T. IX, p. 231, PI. VIII, fig. 8. 



A young male from the Fiji islands. 

 In this species all the regions of the upper surface are 

 very distinctly developed and separated from one another 



Notes from the Leyden M^useum, "Vol. XII. 



