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Of one of the largest egg-laden females from Stat. 316 the carapace is 15 mm. long, 

 the rostrum, measured horizontally, i i mm., the abdomen 36,5 mm., the entire length 62,5 mm.; 

 when measured in a straight line from its base to the apex, the rostrum proves to be 13 mm. long. 



Ova very numerous, oval, 0,54 — 0,56 mm. long, 0,4—0,42 mm. broad. 



General distribution: Arabian Sea (Alcock); Bay of Bengal (Alcock); Andaman 

 Sea (Alcock). 



Parapandalus Bon-. 



The genus Parapandahis Borr., closely related to Plesionika Bate, but distinguished by 

 the want of epipodites on the thoracic legs and by the different appearance and toothing, at 

 least in most species, of the rostrum, includes at present about a dozen species, though it 

 should be remarked that of four species, Parap. cscatUis Stimps., longiamda Rathb., miles 

 (A. M.-Edw.) and stylopus (A. M.-Edw.) it is still unknown whether their peraeopods bear 

 epipodites or not: these species are, however, also included on account of their outer physiognomy. 

 Two, Parap. pristis (Risso) and Parap. A^arxua I {W&W&r), occur in the Mediterranean, the former 

 is known from the coast of Cette, Marseille, Nice, Genoa, Naples, Taranto, Sicily, has also 

 very rarely been observed near the island of Li.ssa in the Adriatic and has recently been 

 recorded from the Red Sea, where Parap. pristis was taken by the "Pola" Expedition at no 

 less than 35 Stations. Parap. Narwal (Heller) is known from the west coast of Italy (Genoa, 

 Viareggio, Naples), from Sardinia, Sicily (Palermo), Taranto, it has been captured north of the 

 coast of Tripolis, but was not yet recorded from the Adriatic. Parap. stylopus (A. M.-Edw.) 

 has been taken, July 1882, by the "Travailleur", but a list of the Stations of this expedition 

 has never been published, as far as I know. 



Two species occur in the eastern Atlantic, near the island of Madeira, Parap. cscatilis 

 (Stimps.) and Parap. Richardi (Cout.), a form with a very long, slender and upturned 

 rostrum, for which Professor Coutiere has created the genus Stylopa7idalus. In the West-Indies 

 Parap. Narwal is represented b)- Parap. viilcs (A. M.-Edw.), a closely related form, which 

 was taken by the expedition off the "Blake" off the island of Martinique. The second Para- 

 pandalus, known from the West-Indies, is Parap. longicauda (Rathb.) from Porto Rico. From 

 the east coast of the United States and of South America, like also from the west coast of 

 the New World, no species are recorded. 



All the other representatives of this genus are found in the Indopacific. Besides Parap. 

 pristis (Risso) still another species occurs in the Red Sea, the long-legged Parap. Adensameri 

 Balss. Three are recorded from the Indian Ocean, firstly the little known Parap. Cottei [Pfeffer] 

 (Kotte), that was captured by the German D'-ep-Sea Expedition at Stat. 253, off the Suaheli 

 Coast, German East Africa, a form bearing more resemblance to some species of Plesionika, 

 as e.g. Plcs.martia{A. M.-Edw.), by the toothing •5nd shape of the rostrum than to its other 

 congeners, furthermore Parap. Zjcr Strasseni Balss, taken by the "Valdivia" Expedition east 

 of the Seychelles and south west of Sumatra, and, finally, Parap. spinipes (Bate), known from 

 off Cape Comorin. Parap. spinipes (Bate) occurs also west of the Kei-islands, near the Kermadec 



