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c\ Second carpal article of longer leg more than 3-times as long 



as 2"^. Telson elongate, 6 — 7-times as long as the posterior 



margin is wide. 



/j Scale of scaphocerite not rudimentary, reaching a little beyond 



2°<i antennular article. Second carpal article of longer leg 



4, 3-times as long as i*' and 14-times (in the typical species 



8-times) as long as thick in the middle .... microstyhis (Sp. Bate) var. 

 f„ Scale of scaphocerite rudimentary, reaching to the middle 

 of 2°^^ antennular article. Second carpal article of the longer 

 leg more than 3,5-times as long as i^'. Larger chela quite 



as in A. microstylits (Sp. Bate) LiUini Cout. 



fg Second carpal article of longer leg twice or less than twice 

 as long as i^'. 

 /j Second carpal article twice as long as i^'. obcso-iiianiLs T>^\-\-a. V2S. japoniais OrX.m. 

 (A. Ortmann, in: Zoolog. Jahrb. Abth. f. Syst. V, 1890, p. 478). 



/„ Second carpal article 1,1 3-times as long as i^'. Telson a 

 little more than 3-times as long as the posterior margin 



is wide persicus Nob. 



(G. NOBILI, in: Bull. Scientif. France et Belgique, 1906, p. i},). 



c„ Terminal spine of scaphocerite not reaching to the apex of 2°*^ 

 antennular article, this article more than 4-times as long as thick 

 in the middle; 2°'^ carpal article of 2°*^ legs not more than one 

 and a half as long as i^'. 

 flfj Carpocerite reaching at least to the apex of 2"^^ antennular article. 

 e^ Terminal spine of scaphocerite only a little shorter than 2°*^ 

 antennular article, 

 /"j Fourth carpal article of 2°'^ legs 3,4 — 3,9-times as long as 

 thick. Merus of 3''^ legs 3,7 — 4-times, carpus 4,4 — 5-times 



as long as wide in the middle malleodigitus (Sp. Bate) 



/-, Fourth carpal article of 2°<i legs 5 — 5,6-times as long as 

 thick. Merus of 3'"'i legs 4,3 — 4, 5-times, carpus 5,6 — 5,8- 



times as long as wide in the middle 



malleodigitus (Sp. Bate) var. gracilicarpus de Man 



^j Terminal spine of scaphocerite reaching to the middle of 



>nd 



antennular article. Telson 4, 5 -times as long as the posterior 

 margin is wide. Merus of 3''<i legs 4, 4-times as long as wide 



in the middle phrygiamis Cout. 



(H. COUTIERE, Alpheidae Maid, and Laccad. Archip. 1905, p. 886, PL LXXVII, fig. 25). 



d„ Carpocerite as long as the terminal spine of scaphocerite, reaching 

 to the middle of 2"'^ antennular article; telson almost 4-times 



iSi 



