412 ox THE STOMATOPODA AND MACRURA BROUGHT BY 



first four or five are on the carapace ; carapace with antennal spine, acute pterygo- 

 stomial angle, and a small dorsal carina on the anterior third of its length; eyes 

 fairly large, with ocellus distinct, but not completely separated fi-om main cornea; all 

 the appendages long and slender ; first antenna with relatively short stalk, first joint 

 longer than second and third together, third longer than second, both flagella long, outer 

 broad and flattened at the base and bearing in this region a fi-inge ; stylocerit eas long 

 as first joint and ending in a sharp point ; second antenna with the stalk short, 

 equal to the first joint of the antennular stalk; scale elongate, narrowing to the 

 free end, where it is truncated, with firm outer edge ending in a spine which 

 starts before the end of the scale and projects beyond it ; third masilliped longer 

 by its last two joints than the antennal scale ; epipodites wanting behind the third 

 maxilliped ; legs of the first pair longer by their last two joints than the third 

 maxilliped ; legs of the second pair equal, exceeding the antennal scale by the hand 

 and the last two or three joints of the wrist, the wrist about 25-jointed, with the 

 last joint nearly equal to three of the preceding joints, growing broader towards the 

 hand; hand arising in a tuft of hairs and with long hairs on the fingers; remaining 

 legs long and slender, with movable spines on the meropodite and the dactyle small ; 

 uropod with exopodite larger than endopodite, endopodite longer than telson ; telson 

 lono-, very narrow, with four spines at the end, and four pairs of spines on the dorsal 

 surface." 



Length of largest specimen 85 mm. 



This species forms part of the food of the Nautilus. 



7 J", trawled at depths of 50 — 100 fathoms in Blanche Bay, New Britain. 



27. Pandalus (Parapandalus) tmidpes sp. n.. Fig. 9. 



Diagnosis : — " A Pandalus with the rostrum long, outreaching the antennal scale, 

 bent slightly upwards, armed above and below with numerous small, similar, movable 

 spines, of which the first four or five are on the carapace ; carapace with antennal 

 and small pterygostomial spine and a slight dorsal carina on the first half of its length ; 

 ej-es fairly large and ocellus distinct, but not completely separated from the cornea ; 

 all the appendages very long and slender; first antenna with rather short stalk, 

 the first joint longer than the second and third together, the third longer than the 

 second, both flagella long, the outer broad and flattened at the base, where it bears 

 a fringe; stylocerite acute; second antenna with the stalk short, and the scale longer 

 than the antennular stalk, with firm outer edge ending in a spine which arises before 

 the end of the scale and just projects beyond it; third maxilliped considerably longer 

 than the antennal scale, with fairly stout meropodite, and the re.st of the limb very weak 

 and slender ; no epipodite behind the third maxilliped ; first pair of legs considerably 

 longer than the rostrum ; second pair of legs longer than the antennal scale by the last 

 half of its wrist ; the latter about 30-jointed, with the last joint equal to two or three 

 of the preceding joints ; last three legs with the meropodite fairly strong and armed with 

 spines, and the distal part of the limb very long and weak ; exopodite of uropod longer 

 than endopodite and armed with a spine on the outside near the fi'ee end ; endopodite 



