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rostrum. Antennular peduucle with the 2ud article soraewhat wider 

 distally than long, one fourth shorter than the visible part of the 

 Ist, 3rd article one fourth longer than 2nd, stylocerite reaehing 

 to the distal fifth part of 2nd joint. Carpocerite 3-times longer 

 than wide, surpassing the antennule by two thirds the distal 

 article, lateral spine of basicerite a little shorter than stylocerite, 

 scale as long as the antennule, as wide as in the var. prolatus 

 Cout. (Alpheidae Mald. and Laccad. Archip. 1905, PI. LXXI, 

 Fig. 7), terminal spine a little shorter than carpocerite. 



Telson in the adult female 3-times longer than the width of 

 posterior margin, for the rest as in the typical form. 



Meropodite of smaller chelipede of the male 2^/3 times longer 

 than wide, with a small, acute tooth at the apex of upper margin, 

 cbela 2,85-times longer than high, for the rest typical. 



Following legs as in the typical species, but the meropodite of 

 3rd pair 3,8-times, of 4th, 3,7-times longer than wide and in 

 either pair the propodite 6-times as long as wide with six res- 

 pectively five spinules, dactylus as in the typical form, but the 

 dorsal hook distinctly longer and a little more than half as thick 

 as the other. 



Ova small, 0,6 m.m. long. Length of ova-bearing female 16 m.m. 



26. Synalpheus paraneomeris Cout., var. praedabunda, n. 



Station 34. Anchorage off Labuan Pandan, Lombok. Depth 18 M. 



Station 37. Sailus Ketjil, Paternoster-islands. Depth 27 M. 



and less. 



Station 129. Anchorage off Kawio- and Kamboling-islands, 



Karkarolong-group. Reef. 



Station 250. Anchorage off Kilsuin, West-coast of Kur-island. 



Reef-exploration. 



Rostrum acute and lateral spines as in the typical species 

 (Coutière, Alpheidae Mald. and Laccad. Archip. 1905, PI. LXXI, 

 Fig. 7'), but the acute tips of the lateral spines are turned in- 

 ward. Carpocerite 3,54-times longer than wide, anten nal region 

 for the rest as in the typical species (1. c. Fig. 7'), 



