420 ON THE STOMATOPODA AXD MACRCRA BROUGHT BY 



immovable, meropodite armed with spines ; telson short, broader than long, with straight 

 hinder edge ; uropod longer than telson, with the raised portion of the exopodite not 

 projecting laterall}- beyond the rest of the structure. 



Length 37 mm. 



1 (/, from New Britain. 



Genus. CaUianidea H. M.-Edw., 1837. 



49. CaUianidea bjpa, H. M.-Edw., 1837. 



CaUianidea typa, H. M.-Edw.. H. N. Crust, ii. p. 320, PI. XXV. his, Figs. S— 14 

 (1837). 



1 (/ from Sariba, British New Guinea. 



Family. Axiidae. 

 Gexus. Eiconawius Bate, 1888. 



50. Eiconaxins taliliensis sp. n., Figs. 15a — 15c. 



Diagnosis : — " An Eiconaxiu^ with the rostrum equal to the first joint of the 

 antennular stalk, ending in two spines, with the sides bent up to form a gutter, and 

 crowned on each side by spines intermingled with thick tufts of hairs ; on the carapace 

 this gutter is continued backwards for a short distance, and on each side an interrupted 

 hairy groove runs back from the base of the rostrum along the sides of the flattened 

 dorsal area to the cervical furrow, just before meeting which the grooves curve some- 

 what outwards. The anterior part of the flat area of the carapace is protected at the 

 side by a raised ridge, which is continuous in front with the side ridges of the rostrum. 

 Antennal tooth present, and pterygostomial angle produced but rounded ; cervical furrow 

 deep, and at the side running obliquely into a shallower depression, which continues 

 it to the anterior edge of the carapace ; outside the cervical groove a small crest of 

 teeth on each side of the body ; eye-stalks shorter than rostrum, cornea terminal ; 

 first joint of antennal stalk equal to second and third together, latter subequal ; 

 stalk of second antenna longer than that of first, scale narrow, strong, with five teeth 

 beneath, spine on basal joint with four teeth outside and two longer teeth inside ; 

 third maxilliped longer by its last three joints than the antennal scale, meropodite with 

 four spines on the inner edge, cai-popodite with five, propodite and last joint nearly equal, 

 latter elongate-oval ; first pair of legs subequal, left stouter than right but otherwise 

 similar, ischiopodite with a row of teeth below, meropodite with five or six rather large teeth 

 above and a crest of small teeth below, immovable finger with one tooth, hand slightly 

 broader than wrist, which bears a single tooth below ; second pair of legs with a crest 

 of teeth under the meropodite ; second, third and fourth legs with a ventral process at the 

 outer end of the ischiopodite ; propodite of legs 3 and 4 with a thick fringe of hairs 

 below ; all the limbs hairy-tufted ; abdomen longer than cephalothorax ; telson with two 

 transverse ridges, behind the second ridge two pairs of small tubercles, along the hinder 

 and lateral borders a row of small, indistinct tubercles, hinder border straight and with 



