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joint, raake an acute angle with the rostrum ; tips of supraorbital 

 spiues glabrous, slightly directed outward. 



Anteunal and antennular peduucles with spines and appendages 

 nearly as in St/7i. streptodactylus, scale of scaphocerite reaching to 

 the middle of 3rd joint, stylocerite reaehing to the 2nd fourth or 

 fifth of median joint that measures a little more than two thirds 

 of the basal one. 



Telson 2,53-times as long as the width of posterior margin, the 

 latter half the greatest width, and similar to that of Syn. strepto- 

 dactylus', spinules of upper surface 0,07 — 0,08 m.m. long, much 

 smaller than in Syn, streptodactylus, anterior pair inserted not 

 anterior (as in this species), but posterior to the middle and 

 nearer to the lateral margins. 



Carpus of 2nd legs stout, Ist segment 4-times as long as thick, 

 slightly shorter than the sum of the four following. 



Proportions of the merabers of 3rd pair : carpus 1 ; meropodite 

 2,44; propodite 2,125. Meropodite 3,68-times longer than wide, 

 with a single spinule, long 0,09 m.m., a little beyond the middle; 

 carpus 2,5-times, propodite 5,66-times longer than wide, with 

 8 spinules; dactylus almost one fourth of the propodite, of a 

 somewhat stouter shape than the dactylus of Syn. streptodactylus, 

 2,51-times longer than wide at its base, anterior margin slightly 

 sinuous, for the rest as in Syn. streptodactylus. 



Fourth legs nearly as the 3rd, proportions of the members: 

 carpus 1; meropodite 2,15; propodite 2,11. 



Length of single female without eggs 11,5 m.m. 



18. Syualpheus modestus, n. sp. 



Station 240. Banda. Reef-exploration. 



A new species of the Neomeris group, closely related to Syn. 

 streptodactylus Cout. 



Rostrum spiniform, slender, five times as long as wide at its 

 base, extendiug to just beyond the middle of 2nd antennular 

 article, lateral spines also spiniform and acuminate, a little shorter 

 than basal article. Antennal region as in Syn, streptodactylus, but 



