1898.] FEOM THE SOUTH PACIPIO. 1003 



the first abdoiuiual appendage. lu the female this has the last 

 joint longer than the preceding, narrow and acuminate, and the 

 preceding joint usually without, sometimes with, one spine at the 

 proximal end of the inner margin. In the male the same 

 appendage has the last joint broad and not longer tliau the 

 preceding, which is armed on its inner margin with oae, usually 

 with two or thi-ee spines. Further, in the male the first abdoiniaal 

 appendage is shorter relatively to the rest than in the female. 

 Five males and six females from Eotuma. 



Tribe CARIDEA. 



Family A t x i d ^. 



Subfamily Aiiiisr^. 



&enus CARADiifA H. M.-Bdwards, 1837. 



3. Caradina wtcki (Hickson), 1888. 



Atya tut/cJcl, Hickson, Ann. Mag. N. H. (6) ii. p. 357, pis. xiii. & 

 xiv. (1888). 



Garadina wijcM, Thallwitz, Abh. Mus. Di-esden, 1890-91, p. 27 

 (1891) ; de Man, Max Weber's Zool. Ergebn. ii. p. 386, pi. xxiv. 

 figs. 29-29 Ic. 



The single specimen of this species in the present collection has 

 nineteen teeth on the upper border of the rostrum and eleven 

 on the lower. It was taken in the Tamavua River, Viti Levu, 

 Fiji. 



4. Caradina TiTiENSis, n. sp. (Plate LXIII. figs. 3, 3 a.) 



Definition. — " A Garadina with the rostrum straight, bearing 

 24 teeth above (none on the carapace) and 9 below, and reaching 

 to somewhat beyond the middle of the second joint of the peduncle 

 of the first antenna ; carapace with aa antennal spine and blunt 

 pterygostomian angle ; first antenna with the last joint of the 

 peduncle about half the length of the preceding joint, and flagella 

 subequal ; second antenna with the scale longer than the peduncle 

 of the first ; third raaxilliped as long as the peduncle of the 

 first antenna ; first pair of legs reaching the end of the first 

 joint of the peduncle of the first antenna, with the fingers about 

 equal in length to the palm; second pair of legs equal to the 

 peduncle of the first antenna, with fingers considerably longer than 

 the palm ; and last three pau-s of legs reaching the end of the 

 second antennal scale." 



Colour when living a pale, almost transparent green. 



Length of the present specimen, from end of telson to tip of 

 rostrum, 22 mm. 



The telson of the single specimen has had the end broken off. 



This species appears to be allied to G. lueberi de Man [Max 

 Weber's Zool. Ergebn. ii, p. 371, pi. xxii. fig. 23 (1892)J, but 

 dilfers from it in the larger number of teeth on the rostrum, the 



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