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distinct cutting-edge. The legs of the third pair reach witli 

 their dactyli })eyond the tip of the anteniial scales. The 

 meropodite of these legs is 15 mm. long and 1*5 mm. thick 

 (or broad) on its outer side, appearing thus ten times as long 

 as broad. The three following joints, measured from articu- 

 lation to articulation, are respectively 7 mm., 13*.i> mm., and 

 4 mm. long ; the propodites areO'84: mm. broad in the middle 

 of their outer side, appearing sixteen times as long as broad. 



The larger chelipede closely resembles that of Pal, {Eupal.) 

 longipes, de Haan {vide de Man, I. c. 1898, tig. 69 a), as 

 regards length and breadth of the joints, but both carpus and 

 palm are slightly curved in the Java species, and the charac- 

 teristic tubercles on the fingers are wanting on those of Pal. 

 longipes. The latter species also differs in its less slender 

 meropodites of the three posterior legs, in the shape and 

 characters of the rostrum, &c. 



Our Sydney species at first sight differs from Pal. loolter. 

 storffi })y the considerably more slender legs of the second 

 pair ; the palm appears almost straight, and the fingers, which 

 are comparatively shorter, do not gape at all and, although 

 the characteristic small tubercles are loanting, are more or 

 less covered with felted hairs near their cutting-edges. 



Pal. {Eupal.) acanthosonia, Nob. (in ' Annali ilus. Civico 

 di StoriaNatur. di Genova,' ser. 2% vol. xx. (xi.), Nov. 1899, 

 p. 242), from Katau, New Guinea, may prove to be identical 

 with our species from Queensland and New South Wales ; 

 but this question cannot be decided, because the legs of the 

 second pair are unknown. In my opinion it is not advisable 

 to describe species of this difficult genus when the legs of 

 the second pair are wanting. 



Another species from Sydney was described by me in 

 Zoolog. Jahrb, ii. Abth. £. Syst. 1888, p. 711. Tiiis species, 

 probably identical with Ortmann's Pal. australis {op. cit. v. 

 1890, p. 708), differs from that described in this paper by 

 the legs of the second pair. 



The specimen received from Mr. McCulloch may, however*, 

 eventually prove to be the adult male of Pal. (Eupal.) dan^v, 

 Heller, a species discoveretl by the ' Novara ' Expedition also 

 at Sydney, about which the late Dr. Koelbcl has furnished 

 some interesting observations taken from the two type 

 specimens, a male and a female, in the Museum at V^ienna 

 (vide de Man, in Max Weber's ' Zool. Ergebnisse,' ii. 1892, 

 p. 438, footnote). The second legs of the female are wanting, 

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