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the tip of the rostrum is slightly directed upward. The third joint 

 of the antennular peduncle is described as subequal to the second • 

 the stylocerite reaches to the middle of the second joint. External 

 maxillipeds projecting beyond the antennal scales. The carpus of 

 first legs is more distinctly excavate and more regularly conical ; 

 the fingers are as long as or barely longer than the palm. The chela 

 of the second legs is shorter in proportion to the carpus, the dactyli 

 of the third pair measure one-fourth and those of the fifth barely 

 one-fifth of the propodite, appearing much shorter than in Car. 

 propinqua (Nobili, " Boll. Mus. Zool. Torino/' xx, 1905, No. 499). 

 The rostrum of Car. opaensis, Roux, is also turned iipward at the 

 tip and carries three or four teeth on the lower margin. The carpus 

 of the first legs is three times as long as thick distally and the fingers 

 are slightly shorter than the palm ; those of the second legs, as also 

 the dactyli of the following, are shorter than those of Car. 

 propinqua (Roux, "^ Decapodes d'eau douce de Celebes, Geneve," 

 1904, P- 547, figs- 8, 9 and 10). _ , , , ,_, 



