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half as long as broad, upper border strongly curved with one sharp 

 tooth, lower margin with a dozen of small sharp teetb. Carpus 

 short. Palm of the larger chelipede once and a half as long as 

 the fingers, each of which with 8 or 9 obtuse teeth ; in the smaller 

 chelipede the fingers are as long as the palm and more faintly 

 denticulate. Legs of the 3rd and of the 4th pair stout. The pro- 

 podite of the 3rd pair 3-times, that of the 4th 4-times as long 

 as broad ; dactylus of these legs, almost half as long as the pro- 

 podites, with spines on their lower margin and with a row of 

 spines on the outer side. 



Length of the single specimen 7.8 m.m., the carapace being 

 2,86 m.m. long, the abdomen 4.94 m.m. 



A new genus of the Family Axiidae. 



Carapace about half as long as the abdomen, branchial regions 

 somewhat swollen. Rostrum triangular, of good size, its margins 

 unarmed, carinate in the middle line and continuous with the 

 gastric region, which is rounded, like the rest of the carapace. 

 Cervical groove indistinct. Carapace excavated posteriorly. 



Pleura of the abdominal somites that barely overlap one another, 

 rather small. Telson quadrate, truncate ; caudal swimmerets broadly 

 foliaceous, exopodite not divided by any suture. 



Eyepeduncles subcylindrical, eyes at the rounded distal end, 

 not facetted, faintly pigmented. 



Antennular flagella subequal, longer than the peduncle, half as 

 long as the carapace. Antennal thorns well developped, stylocerite 

 small, scaphocerite large, spiniform. 



Maxillipedes of the 2nd pair furnished with an exopodite, those 

 of the 3rd pair pediform, without an exopodite. 



Thoracic legs of Ist pair equal, larger than those of the 2nd. 

 Propodites of the legs of the 3rd and 4th pairs compressed, oval, 

 fringed with hairs, shorter than the carpus ; dactylus shorter than 



1) From i'i.eTx, eiKwv and Axius. 



