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margin slightly eiuargiuate or concave in the middle, with 2 long 

 spinules at either side, the outer as long as the posterior margin 

 is wide, the inner one and a half as long; width at base twice 

 that of posterior margin. 



Four posterior legs sleuder and thin. Meropodite of 2nd legs 

 12 times as long as thick; carpus 1,17 times as long as the 

 meropodite. Carpal segments 0,61 mm., 0,09 mm., 0,1 mm., 

 0,1 mm., and 0,2 mm. long; Ist segment 8 times as long as 

 thick, the three foUowing almost as thick as long. Chela twice 

 as long as 5th segment, fingers one and a half as long as the 

 palm. 



Measuremeuts of 3rd legs: Meropodite 1,6; carpus 1; propodite 

 1,53. Ischiopodite with 2 spines. Meropodite 9 times, propodite 14 

 times as long as wide, the propodite without spinules. Dactylus 

 ^/j of the propodite, simple, slender, 10 times as long as thick 

 at its base. Dactylus of 5th legs ^/^ of the propodite, slightly 

 curved, tapering and simple like that of 3rd, 13 times as long 

 as thick at base. 



Length of the only, mutilated, specimen collected 7,3 mm. 



31. Automate anacanthopus, n. sp. 



Station 114. Lat. 0° 58'. 5 N., long. 122° 55' E. Kwandang- 



bay entrance. Depth 75 M. 



Station 193. Sanana-bay, East coast of Sula Besi. Depth 22 M. 



Rostrum acute, very small, ^s the length of the eye-peduncles, 

 that are a little shorter than the visible part of basal antennular 

 article; this visible part and the two following articles are in 

 proportion to one another as 4:5:2. Stylocerite a little shorter 

 than basal article. Antennular peduncle slender, median article 

 3 times as long as thick in the middle. Carpocerite slender, 6 

 times as long as thick, slightly longer than antennular peduncle; 

 terminal spine of scaphocerite reaching to the extremity of median 

 article. 



Telson 4,5—4,7 times as long as the width of posterior margin; 

 lateral margins slightly emargiuate on their proximal half. 



