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bilt a littlo boyond the carpal artieiilation of tlie hand of the 

 antcrior pair and the carpus is but liffle (in tlie full-grown female 

 only one-sixth) longer than the chehi: in tlie variety affinis^ however, 

 the 2nd legs are in the adult female almost as long as the Ist 

 pair, whereas in the adult male, and in the young, they show 

 the same length as in the typical form ; in the adult female the 

 carpus appears moreover relatively longer. 



Aegeon jn'opensalata (Bate), var. Jiilarula n. 



Aegeon propensalajta., Stanley Kemp, in : Records of the Tndian 

 Museum, Vol. XII, Part YIII, Calcutta 1916, p. 377 (ubi synon.). 

 Illustrations Zool. „Investigator", Plate XLI, figs. 6, 6*. 



Stat. 47. Bay of Bima, near south fort. 55 m. Bottom mud 

 with patches of fine coral sand. 1 male. 



Like in Aegeon media Alcock, which, according to Dr. Calman, 

 is identical with A. i^ropensalata (Bate), the abdominal pleura of 

 this probably still young male are inferiorly truncate : this specimen, 

 however, differs from that species by the following. The triangular 

 rostrum, that reaches only to the middle of the eyestalks, is hifle>i- 

 tate at apex and the tooth on either side of the base is rather 

 smalli not larger than the teeth at apex ; the distance, measured 

 in the middle line, between the line imiting the two teeth on 

 either side of the base and that which unites the apical teeth, 

 is one-fifth shorter than the distance between the tips of the two 

 teeth at base and the latter is nearly 5-times as long as the dis- 

 tance between the tips of the two apical teeth. 



All the processes with which the carapacial carinae are armed, 

 are obtuse, blunt, those of the Ist or dorsal carinae, on each side 

 of the middle, are a little more prominent than those of the other 

 crests and the serration of the supra-marginal carina is very obscure. 



Sculpturing of abdomen well developed, agreeing ^yith the cited 

 figures of the „Illustrations", but the tergum of the 2nd somite 

 bears, on either side of the middle, two tubercles, separated by 

 a vertical furrow, that reaches to near the median crest, like in 

 A. pennata (Bate), A. Sibogae n. sp. and its variety intermedia n. 



