310 CRUSTACEA. 
The left leg agrees with that of the first specimen. 
Here also the meropodite which is 12 millim. long, does 
not yet reach to the extremity of the antennal scales, 
The wrist, which is 11 millim. long, is likewise shorter 
than the meropodite and the chela measures 25 millim. 
The fingers, that are 16 millim. long, are gaping and 
clothed with the characteristic hairs. The palm is 9 millim. 
long, 7 millim. broad and 4'/, millim, thick. In this 
specimen also the fingers are almost twice as long as the 
palm. Both legs of the second pair show a sea-green 
colour and are marked with light spots, whereas the fin- 
gers present a light-coloured band, placed on the larger 
chela near their tips, (Fig. 8), on the smaller “in the 
middle of them. 
This species now, of course, appears to be still more 
allied to Pal. lepidactylus Hilgendorf of the coast of Mogam- 
bique, because in this specimen the fingers of the larger 
hand are longer than the palm. Nevertheless I re- 
gard the two species to be different. The teeth of the ros- 
trum reach almost until the middle of the cephalo- 
thorax, but in the african species they extend only along 
the distal third of it. The characteristic spinulation of the 
upper and of the lower surface of the palm of the larger 
hand is a different one and the character presented by the 
rami of the uropoda is also shown by this second specimen. 
The fingers, moreover, of the larger hand of Pal. lepidacty- 
lus are more hairy and the chela itself has a different form. 
27. Gonodactylus scyllarus L. 
Two specimens from Larantoeka, Hast Flores. 
28. Gonodactylus chiragra Fabr. 
A single specimen from Poeloe Samaoe. 
Middelburg, Sept. 1898. 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XV. 
