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Stat. 7. March 11. 7°55'-SS., ii4°26'E. Reef of Batjulmati (Java), i male and i young female. 

 Stat. 40. April 2. Anchorage oft" Pulu Kawassang, Paternoster-islands. 1 2 m. Bottom coral- 

 reef. 2 very young specimens, probably belonging to this species. 

 Stat. 66. May 7/S. Rank between islands of Rahuluwang and Tambolungan, south of Saleyer. 



8 m. Bottom dead coral; Halimeda ; Lithothamnion. i egg-laden female. 

 Stat. 71. May 10 — June 7. Makassar. Up to 32 m. Bottom mud. Sand with mud. Coral. 



2 ova-bearing females. 

 Stat. 8^9. June 21. Pulu Kaniungan Ketjil. Reef, i egg-bearing female. 

 Stat. 96. June 27. South-east side of Pearl-bank. Sulu-archipelago. 15 m. Lithothamnion- 



bottom. I egg-bearing female. 

 Stat. 99. June 28/29/30. 6°7'.5 N., 120° 26' E. Anchorage of North-Ubian. 16 — 23 m. Litho- 



thamnion-bottom. 2 young males. 

 Stat. 109. July 5/6. Anchorage off Pulu Tongkil, Sulu-archipelago. 13 m. Lithothamnion- 



bottom. I ova-bearing and i young female. 

 Stat. 258. Dec. 12/16. Tual-anchoragc, Kei-islands. 22 m. Bottom Lithothamnion, sand and 



coral. 3 young specimens. 

 Stat. 273. Dec. 23/26. Anchorage off Pulu Jedan, East coast of Aru-islands. 13 m. Bottom 



sand and shells. 1 full-grown ova-bearing female. 

 Stat. 315. Febr. 17/18, 1900. Anchorage East of Sailus Besar, Paternoster-islands. Up to 36 m. 



Bottom coral and Lithothamnion. i egg-bearing female. 

 Unknown Station, i young specimen. 



These specimens agree very well with Baker's detailed description and belong certainly 

 to this species, but it appears to me probable that Stimpson's Nica macrognatha is identical, 

 because his description or diagnosis is also applicable to these specimens : I prefer, however, 

 to refer them to Proc. australiensis, on account of the detailed description of the latter. 



The ova-bearing female from Stat. 273 is 15,5 mm. long from tip of rostrum to X\\) of 

 telson, while Baker indicates a length of 16 mm., omitting rostrum and telson : rostrum, carapace, 

 abdomen without telson and telson are in this female respectively 0,9 mm., 3,75 mm., 8,6 mm. 

 and 2,25 mm. long. The rostrum that reaches to the middle of the eyepeduncles and that is 

 directed horizontally forward in a line with the straight upper border of the carapace, appears 

 at its base nearly as broad as it is long and slightly depressed, but soon narrows to form an 

 acuminate and compressed spine; of the rostrum that measures one-fourth the length of the rest 

 of the carapace, both the upper and the lower margin end (Fig. 5 i b) in a sharp spine, between 

 which a few setae are implanted, while the lower spine reaches a little farther forward than the 

 upper; in a lateral view the height of the rostrum proves to be about one-si.xth the length and the 

 lower margin appears in the middle slightly convex, at the base slightly concave. The carapace, 

 which, without the rostrum, measures one-fourth the entire length, is slightly depressed, hardly 

 higher than broad, the height (2,56 mm.) being in proportion to the width (2,4 mm.) like i : 0,94 

 and the carapace appears one and a half as long as high; carapace perfectly smooth, antennal 

 spine acute but very small, antero-inferior angle of carapace rounded. 



The pleura of the i*' abdominal somite are rounded anteriorly, not "somewhat acutely", 

 as we read in Baker's description. The telson (Fig. 5 1 af), grooved longitudinally, measures Y7 the 

 entire length of the body and is 3-times as long as broad proximally, while the width at base is 

 in proportion to that of the tip like 2,7 : i ; the anterior pair of dorso-lateral spinules that are 

 0,19 mm. long, ^\^„ the length of the telson, are implanted at one-fifth the length from the 

 base, the posterior pair that show the same length, just behind the middle. The uropods are 



