1905. ] FROM CHRISTMAS ISLAND. _ DAT 
The right leg (fig. 9) resembles the one described (confer the 
measurements), but the palm is a@ little less broad than the distal 
end of the carpus, and the crowded spinules on the inner border 
of the palm are decidedly larger than those on the outer border. 
The toothing of the fingers is also different, the teeth being much 
smaller. The fixed finger carries a minute, conical tooth at one- 
third of its length from the articulation, and a smaller one behind 
it; at two-fifths of its length from the articulation the dactylus 
carries a similar, small, acute tooth, and between it and the arti- 
culation four much smaller teeth, also sharp. The palm of both 
legs is somewhat marbled by darker flecks; the fingers are bluish 
on their lower side with yellow tips, whereas their pale yellow 
upper surface is marked with three or four blue bands. 
The three following legs are also of a stowter shape than in the 
typical specimens of Pal. lav. The 3rd pair reach to the end of 
the antennal scales, the 4th are a little shorter, and the 5th pair 
reach to the distal third part of the scales. The breadth of the 
meropodites of the 3rd pair (Pl. XVIIT. fig. 11) is little more 
than 1 of their length, and that of the propodites little more 
than 4 of the length of these joints. The basal joints and the 
meropodites are smooth above, but thei lower surface is beset 
with small spinules, a few of which occur also on their outer 
surface. ‘The carpopodites are on all sides covered with similar 
spinules, and the propodites are still more spinulose; the spinules 
show here a tendency to be arranged in longitudinal rows. The 
lower border of the propodites carries a row of larger spines, 9 or 
10 on the propodites of the 3rd legs, which are 0°36—-0-4 mm. long; 
on the propodites of the 5th pair these larger spines of the lower 
border are 14 or 15 in number and become distally a little longer, 
so that the last one near the articulation of the dactylus is 
0-55 mm. long. The dactylopodites of the 3rd pair (fig. 11) 
measure somewhat more than one third, the shorter dactyli of the 
5th one-fourth of their propodites. The ambulatory legs are a 
little hairy, especially the carpo- and propodites; the hairs, how- 
ever, are short and fine. A tuft of hairs occurs at the distal end 
of the upper border of the propodites, and those of the 5th pair 
carry, moreover, a brush of hairs at the far end of the lower 
border. 
The rostrum of the female (Pl. X VIII. fig. 12) is slightly inclined 
downward and reaches to the distal end of the peduncles of the 
internal antenne. The upper border carries 9 teeth, the 3rd of 
which is situated not before, but just above the frontal margin, 
two standing also on the carapace; the teeth, which reach to the 
tip, are a little unequal, the 2nd and the 6th being longer than 
the rest, and the foremost tooth is smaller than the preceding. 
The lower edge carries 5 smaller teeth, the tip of the 3rd tooth, 
which is situated just below the middle of the penultimate tooth 
of the upper border, is once and a half as far distant from the 
extremity of the rostrum as from the tip of the 2nd tooth of the 
lower border, 
