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Cornea of the eyes black. Stylocerite acute. Antennular peduncle reaching about to the 

 middle of the antennal scale ; scaphoceritc hardly longer than broad with the terminal spine large, 

 reaching just beyond the lamella. 



First pair of legs probably without exopodite, upper margin of the merus with a short 

 spine at the far end. The legs of the a"** pair extend to the middle of the propodus of the 

 P', carpus a little longer than the merus and than the chela, the latter nearly as long as the 

 merus, fingers about half as long as the palm. Third legs setaceous, about as long as those of 

 the I*' pair, carpus 3,4 mm. long, one and a half as long as the merus and almost 272-times 

 as long as the propodus, dactylus two-fifths of the propodus. Dactylus of 4''' and s''' pair 

 lanceolate, narrow, a little shorter than the propodi. 



General distribution: Hawaiian Islands (Ratiii!Un). 



Sabinea Owen. 



The genus Sabinea Owen, that differs from tlie other Crangonidae by the peraeopods 

 of the second pair being simple, not chelate, was hitherto still unknown in the Indopacific : at 

 present, however, science is indebted to the Siboga Expedition in the remarkable discovery of 

 a new species of Sabinea^ captured north of Tanah Djampeah Island in the Indian Archipelago. 

 Sabinea septemcai'inata (Sabine), the first described species of this genus, ranges in tlie Siberian 

 Polar Sea from i70°i7'E. westward to the Kara Sea, has been observed in the White Sea, 

 the Murman Sea, the Barents Sea, on the eastern and western coasts of Finmark and in the 

 seas of Spitzbergen, while it has also been taken at the Lofotes and farther .south on the west 

 coast of Norway; this species, however, occurs also on the east coast of North America from 

 Massachusetts Bay to the St. Lawrence estuary, on the west coa.st of Greenland as far up as 

 Discovery Bay at Grinnell Land, on the coasts of south and east Greenland, all round Iceland 

 and near Jan Mayen. The second species, Sabinea Sarsii S. I. Smith, which is closcl)- related. 

 is distributed from the entrance to the White Sea along the Murman coast and the north and 

 west coasts of Norway to the Skager Rak and the Shetland Islands; it has also been taken 

 near the Fa;roes, all round Iceland and occurs on the east coast of North America from the 

 Gulf of Maine and south of Halifax to Davis Straits, The third hitherto known representative 

 of the genus Sabinea, Sab. Jiysirix (A. M.-Edw.), a large species attaining a length of 

 125 mm. from tip of rostrum to ti]j of telson, ranges from ofl' the island of Guadeloupe, along 

 the east coast of the United States, to Davis .Straits and south-west of Iceland. 



The indopacific species, finally, discovered b)- the "Siboga", the new Sabinea indica, 

 approaches to Sab. Jiystrix by the shape of the acuminate rostrum reaching to beyond the 

 1^' antennular article and likewise armed with an acute tooth at either side of the base, but it 

 differs considerably from this and from the two other species by the much smaller number of 

 spines on the carapace and by the smooth, unarmed abdomen. 



Sabinea septemcarinata is found in rather shallow water, the greatest depth not sur- 

 passing 164 fathoms, though in the Bredefjord Sermilik, Southern Greenland, two specimens 

 in a young stage were caught in 220 fathoms (Stephensen). According to Dr. Haxskn Sabinea 



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