597 



Slender merus of 2nd legs with 7 spines on lower border, fingers 

 twice as long as the palm. 



Leugth of single female 21 m.m., the carapace being 7,5 m.ra. long. 



11. Axiopsis Picteti (Zehntner), var. spinimana n. 



Stat. 209. Anchorage off the South point of Kabaëna-island. 

 Depth 22 M. 



Together with two typical males of Axiopsis Picteti (Zehntner), 

 that ought to be referred to this genus and not to Paraxius 

 Bate, at the same Station two other specimens were collected, 

 an egg-bearing female and a younger male, that are for the present 

 considered and described as a variety of Zehntner's species. This 

 variety chiefly differs from the type by the Ist pair of thoracic 

 legs, the upper border of the chela being armed with strong spines 

 and the outer surface of the palm being covered with rather 

 conical, though mostly obtuse tubercles in stead of elongate ones. 

 The palm and the fingers are not glabrous, but grown over with 

 stiff hairs, and of the three ridges into which the upper surface 

 of the dactylus is divided, the inner and outer ones are sharp, 

 not rounded. Length of the female 25 mm. 



Paraxiopsis n. subg. 



A new subgenus of the genus Axiopsis Borr. 



The rostrum is not continuous with the gastric regiou, but 

 situated below the level of it, the carapace sloping anteriorly down 

 to the rostrum. The antennal thorns (stylocerite and scaphocerite) 

 are very small. Paraxiopsis differs from Calocaris Bell by the cara- 

 pace presenting no keel in the hinder part, bij the well-facetted 

 and pigmented eyes and by a shallow-water habitat. 



Type: Paraxiopsis Brocki de M. 



12. Axiopsis (Paraxiopsis) bisquamosa n. sp. 



Stat. 133. Anchorage off Lirung, Salibabu-island. Depth up 

 to 36 M. 



