﻿g PYCNOGOXIDA 



2. Subfam. Pallenini. 

 Palpi deficientes vel inimiuuti. 



The palps wanting or rudimeutan-. 



I. Gen. Pallene (Johnst.). 



Palleue Wilson; Syn. Pycnog. Xew-Engl., 1878. 

 Sars, Pycuogonidea, 1S91. 



I. Pallene acus n. sp. 



PI. IV. Fig. 8— 13. 

 Corpus siibgracile. 



Colliim breve. 



Rostrum crassum. 



Tnber oculare altum, acutissimum, erectum, paulum cnrvatuni, absque ocellis. 



Seginentum caudale magnum, in obliquum erecttim. 



Pedes oviferi longi; pars terminalis pedum laminis latis, ovalibus 10 — 12 iustructa. 



Pedes gressorii longi, articulo altero tarsali in margine interiore acie angusta, longa instructo. Ung^iis 



permagnus, validus, quartas partes articuli alterius tarsalis fere explens, uuguiculis aiixiliaribus 



gracilibus, tertiam partem longitudinis unguis fere referentibus. 

 Long, tota 3"™. Rostri 0,65'""'. Corporis 2,2"™. Segmenti caudalis 0,5™™. 



The trunk rather slender. 



The neck short 



The proboscis thick. 



The oculiferous tubercle high, very pointed, erect, a little curved, without ocelli. 



The caudal segment large, obliquely erect 



The ovigerous legs long; the tenninal part with 10 to 12 broad, oval leaves. 



The ambulatory legs long, the inner edge of the second tarsal joint with a long, narrow cutting-blade. 



The claw very large, powerful, about four fifths of the length of the second tarsal joint, with 



slender auxiliary claws, of aboiTt one third of the length of the claw. 

 Total length 3""". The proboscis 0,65'"™. The trunk 2,2""". The caudal segment 0,5°"°. 



The cutting edge or blade (acies) that in this species and the following one is mentioned as 

 proceeding from the inner margin of the second tarsal joint, corresponds to a similar formation on 

 the same tarsal joint in Phoxichilidium petiolafian, which is drawn by Hansen, Zoolog. Dan., 1885, 

 pi. VH, fig. 22 c. c, and in the explanation of the figures, p-IX, called a cutting edge on the lower 

 margin of this ■, in the text, p. 130, it is called a cutting ridge formed like the blade of a knife . 



