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the seventh Joint is very small, ornamented with a few strong setae : the eighth Joint is rather 

 strongly curved, its palm provided at the base with five or six stout spines, and distally a few 

 small irregulär spines ; all the joints are ornamented with minute tubercles. The total length of the 

 body and proboscis is an eighth of an inch; of one of the posterior appendages three eighths". 

 (Nach Haswell). 



*8. Parapallene chiragra (M. Edw.). 



Eine nicht gut charakterisierte Art. (Siehe die nächste Species). 



*o. Parapallene australiensis (Hoek). 



Bass Strait, 38 to 40 fathoms between Melbourne and Sidney, 120 fathoms. 



„Body extremely slender. Cephalic part of the eephalothoraeie segment distinctly separated 

 from the thoracic part by means of a true articulation. Proboscis short, inserted ventrally. 

 Ovigerous legs with true denticulate spines, and a long denticulate claw. Legs without auxiliary 

 claws. Total length 4 mm. 



Observation s. Perhaps this species is nearly allied to Pallene chiragra Edw. He 

 gives the following description of his species: „Corps tres-grele; tete courte mais cylindrique. 

 Second article des pates-mächoires tres-renfie, et premier article du thorax extremement allonge. 

 Pates environ cinq fois aussi longues que le corps, sans crochets accessoires au bout. Pates 

 accessoires de la femelle de dix articles". However, as in this description the very distinet spines 

 on the legs have not been mentioned, which, if present, would certainly have been seen by Milne- 

 Edwards, I think it probable that his Pallene chiragra is a nearly allied but distinet species. 



Jarvis Bay, New Holland, where Milne-Edwards's species was collected, is not far from 

 Station 163 (between Melbourne and Sidney)". 



(Nach Hoek, Challenger Report, p. 76, sub Pallene). 



*io. Parapallene grubii (Hoek). 



Syn. Phoxichilidiiun Grube. Jahresber. Schi. Ges. vaterl. Cultur, 1869, p. 54. 

 Pallene Grubii Hoek, Challenger Report, p. 30. 



Chinesisches Meer. 



Eine ungenügend characterisierte Art; wegen der fehlenden blattförmigen Stacheln des Oviger 

 vielleicht in näherer Beziehung zu bringen mit Parapallene haddonii oder Parapallene capra. 



Gattung Pallene Johnston (1837). 



*i. Pallene valida (Hasw.). 



Syn. Nymphon validum, in : HASWELL, Pycnogonida of the Australian Coast, Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. N. S. Wales, V. 9, 1885, p. 1024. 



Port Stephens, Australia. 

 Das Nymphon validtun Haswell scheint mir kein Nymphon zu sein, sondern der Gattung 



